Pros
- Kids and families are the only reason to stay.
Cons
- Admin constantly introduces new programs despite staff barely being able to conduct the usual curriculum - Weekly PDs (half the time they’re just updates that could be an email) - No accountability for admin. They can and will get away with anything. - Admin will explicitly ask for “positive feedback” in the end of year review despite consistent failure and refusal to change with teacher suggestions - 3x/week observations not including walk throughs from DS and admin - School day is from 7:50-3:45. Contract hours are 7:45-3:45. Not enough planning/lunch time. Meetings will be scheduled during your lunch period. - Teachers are asked and expected to discipline students during their lunch period, despite the school having two deans and plenty of admin sitting in their office on their laptop. -With a large amount of students who can’t read or do basic math… admin looks the other way as the school year is filled with multiple standardized tests and test prep lessons. - Teachers are encouraged to teach to the test and check answers before submitting to ensure high scores - Admin hires a certain type of people. ** None that reflect the student body. ** - Teachers and paras are heavily underpaid while management continues to create arbitrary upper management roles. - Management increases recruitment efforts but will not pay existing teachers more in tangent with Chicago public school salaries. - Extremely high turnover rate.
