Pros
If you need a teaching job and need one immediately, apply here. They'll hire you no questions asked, no background check, no fingerprinting, no nothing. They probably won't even check to see if your degree is valid.
Cons
It's an extremely unusual place. I've never seen so much garbage thrown at both parents and teachers alike. Special education instruction are lawsuits in the making, and higher rungs of leadership do absolutely nothing to dispel ethical violations, they do not attack matters of professionalism head on and will feed b.s. lines to the communities at large. The students are largely stressed over inadequate instruction, overcrowding, and despite their claims of being a "college preparatory" environment, their curriculum reflects anything but. Worksheets are the domain of homework, here they are appropriated for daily classroom use. Parents are routinely lied to and given fluffy responses layered with academic vernacular which they do not understand and empty promises. They hire quite a few TFA staff obviously because they can pay them substantially less, are not interested in unionizing, and they know the teaching job is merely a stepping stone in their resumes. These same staff members are layered with horrendous abuse and intimidation tactics cloaked in the guise of giving constructive feedback.
