Difficult job made worse by lack of leadership
Pros
Working with children and making a difference in their lives.
Cons
This place is extremely toxic. “Leadership” fails to actually lead, there is a toxic assistant gossip group that alienates and undermines the teachers they are supposed to support creating a hostile work environment (which “leadership” refuses to deal with), and a complete lack of structure and consequences for students who need affirmation and clear boundaries. Consequences are disproportionately more enforced/severe for black students. Everything they do feels like a performance designed to get donor dollars. Glass walls, daily tour groups, media is in the building all the time. They fluff up pay and benefits to make the salary look competitive on paper, but what is on paper is not what you get in hand. There is high turnover every year due to these issues and more. For the most part there is no support, encouragement, or positive feedback from “leadership” creating an atmosphere of feeling over worked and under appreciated.
