High Teacher Turnover rate and Extreme Long Hours - Teacher Uncommon Schools Employee Review

7:30am-4:45pm work hours. 2 duties + class coverage - happen at least 2 times a week. 7 PTO days and blackout dates when you can't use your PTO. Most school allows 10 PTO days. Teachers are being lowball with the pay at least 10k. Bad health insurance high copay: $100 copay for doctor visit. In January, 8 teachers left the school. By June, most teachers left; 6 returning and it is a matter of time when they will leave. Current teachers are forbid to maintain any communication with departed teachers. Students go through an oppressive entry uniform and phone screening everyday similar to airport TSA process. Students manage to sneak their phone in school and use throughout the day. If a student being seen with a phone in a class, teacher will be reprimanded. You are expected to internalize every lesson with answer keys and script out questions and upload to their drive. Students turn off light and throw pencils and chair up in the air. They will plot for teachers to get fired if they don't like them. I heard their conversation when I subsituted classes. Never ending class coverage due to high turnover and high call out for being stressed with workload. Low Morale: Justin Salvador yells, criticizes entire staff for student misbehavior in weekly Friday's meeting. He showed videos of a teacher doing well and testimonial of student to praise that teacher and put everyone down. The entire room felt the humiliation but no one spoke up for fear of retaliation. Strict shoes requirement: you must get a doctor's note to wear sneakers and they must be full black. If you are one of the favorites, you may be able to get away with the policy. HR is there to protect the organization not teachers. Filing a complaint resulted in being target.