Pros
The people you immediately work with are fantastic. Whether they be your impact managers, coworkers, students, you are surrounded by many amazing people looking to make a different in the lives of students in need.
Cons
The pay is awful. 10.5 hours a day, with a few days of extra work at a rate that is laughably below minimum wage. The training for the job involves liberal identity politics and preaches inclusion yet uses exploitation and does not address any of the actual issues in our school system. The company would not exist without inequalities in our school system, and while their training encourage young people do attack and dismantle them, City Year is well aware that that would put them out of a job. A attempt to actually enact real change at a school will be met with so much push back from the higher levels. What is worse, is they will weaponize impact managers (who are usually ex-student success coaches, and not much older than the people they manage) to squelch any kind of real change that threatens the companies position. This can create animosity in the work place.