Pros
Having a full time TA is such a luxury, the parent community is mostly helpful albeit entitled, the kids are so sweet and generally highly performing so you can really push them, the facilities are beautiful and I never had to spend money on supplies for my classroom, the curriculum is awesome for math, social studies, science and literature.
Cons
The pay is shockingly low and wildly under-market for AZ charter schools, the upper administration at the corporate level would gaslight and shame us when we would voice concerns about safety, even publicly. Lots of nepotism and family members being given opportunity after opportunity. Our scheduled raises were frozen, we were lied to consistently about distance learning vs. hybrid learning, they recruit out of catholic colleges so the staff culture has religious undertones even though it’s a secular school. Teachers were blamed for the numerous covid outbreaks rather than accountability for their non existent mask policy. All policy decisions are at the whim of upper leaderships political ideology rather than fact. Site leadership is usually promoted too quickly because their staff retention is so bad. I believe my site leadership did their best despite being severely under-qualified. Upper leadership however is basically a cult
