Great Hearts Academies reviews

It's strange how their politics works. Since there's a lot of control from Great Hearts headquarter, you don't know why certain decisions are made. So, the schools sometimes seem to have less autonomy. Although the program itself seems secular, Great Hearts is deeply christian institution, and they are super conservative about non-binary gender representation. Most of my non-binary, non-christian friends from GH had not-so-pleasant and even terrible experiences. Also, the baseline pay for beginning teachers is around 40k, which without taxes is about 30k, so the payment is way too little when compared to the work you do at GH!

Severe mismatch between aspirational curriculum and student preparation and interest levels Students often cannot read classical texts they are asked to discuss Instructors often do not know (except in sound bites) the works they are asked to teach Administrators (Goodyear) without any academic background in Great Books but better suited to running a local Dollar General store Black Lives Matter promotion detrimental to school leadership Insistence that students receive "positive" grades regardless of performance ("prizes for everyone") Hyper-progressive practices in the name of classical education Wizard-of-Oz-like deception that pervades authorized classroom learning parameters.