As a teacher, you will be trained on the C2 3-1 teaching model. You will not be trained on the actual curriculum at all. You will not receive any useful in-service training ever. No matter how long you teach somewhere, your hours will always be dependent on the needs of the center that week. You may teach 30 hours one week and be cut to 12 the next week. You may have your hours scheduled on a given day canceled 2 hours or less before you actually teach because the center has fewer students than expected and is under considerable pressure from corporate headquarters to maintain the student-teacher ratio (STR). One of the final straws for me was finding out that our 20-minute lunch break on Saturdays, when we work a full 8-hour day, would be unpaid. It was far more important to C2 to take $8 a week out of my pocket than to support a long-term teacher who had taught at the center for thousands of hours and been responsible for numerous sign ups and renewals by students.
STR, sales, and renewals are the Holy Grail of C2 as a company. C2 is a sales organization; they could be selling timeshares or kitchen renovations, it wouldn't really matter much. The fact that they have to deliver Educational Services as a byproduct of their sales process is almost incidental to the way the company functions. You will hear endless rhetoric about their dedication to education and their support for their teachers. It is just that-rhetoric. C2 and other private education companies have to hire teachers smart enough to teach their curriculum, but they still believe the teachers are dumb enough to believe what they tell us. Everyone in management is focused on making more money to stuff in their pockets. Nothing more.
I left because of the lack of full-time employment possibilities. While the company supposedly started a pilot program to employ a few teachers full-time, the option was never offered at our Center despite my asking for it for several months. Naturally, I took a full-time teaching job elsewhere when it came along. I could not even participate in C2's advertised teacher certification program. Attempts to obtain the AP World History exam that I needed to take to get an AP teacher certification were literally ignored by the company. I can only conclude that the certification program was a sad joke that they advertise in the centers for PR purposes. Offering teachers a higher level certification would require paying a few pennies more, which the company is never willing to do. Even with regular raises, my pay increased less than 15% over a three-year period.
In conclusion, C2 Education is an okay place to cut your teeth on teaching and tutoring in general. You can make a few bucks in a flexible schedule environment. However, if you have any ambitions to pursue a more substantial teaching career, or you just want to work for a company that isn't trying to squeeze every last penny out of every last dollar that comes through the door, you should look elsewhere. I would not go back to work for any C2 Center under this district manager supervision ever again. The company lost an experienced, popular teacher as a result of their management policies.