You are expected to work all the time including evenings and weekends for a very small pay. You are disposable and get very little respect from the headmaster and administration. Most teachers are very young and don't stay more then 1-2 years. Most have very little experience and don't know how to teach, or how to control students. You are also expected to sub for free during your prep hours once or twice per week, sometimes more. You are expected to be on campus from 7:30 to 4:30 PM, do lesson reviews, contact parents, attend 504 meetings, meet with colleagues, and also attend sport events, fine art night events, etc. The list is never ending. The "library" is for elementary school kids only. There is no library for middle school or high school. Computers are at least 8 years old and incredibly bad. There is no cafeteria. Students eat outside, rain or shine. Student plays, talent shows, and dances are also done outside, in Phoenix weather. The so-called Socratic method is a joke among faculty, and seniors, despite their "classical education" are incapable of writing any basic research paper (the "senior thesis" is a joke), speaking about art movements, discussing history or geography, or making any old-fashioned logical argument. Great Hearts functions like a cult: they have this glossy, superficial appearance to the outside world, but the sad reality is that the more students they enroll, the more money they get from the state. They are not interested in instruction quality, SAT scores, or where students will end up (most of them go to community colleges or in-state colleges, if they attend college at all). Their obsession is growing and building more Great Hearts schools, like a disease.
