Learn4Life Concept Charter Schools reviews

There is no pay raise system. Instead, you just have to hope that you will get a hefty bonus that year. It's unreliable, which causes anxiety. Some years you might get 8% of your salary as a bonus, and some years you get 25%. There is an unspoken acceptance of our incredibly low academic standards. Having low standards made sense when the messaging of the school system was toward creatively assisting the least successful students into reasonably finishing their high school diploma. However, dwindling staff numbers and over-extending ambitions have led to a sad phenomenon. In the name of funding, we over-enroll students using special programs without thinking if our schools (with severely over-capped numbers) can even handle that amount. It becomes a numbers game instead of an academic one. We want to be portrayed as a prestigious and inspiring program when our day-to-day is janky and flimsy. We are told to have pride for a school that doesn't seem to have pride in itself. It's gotten bad because the language surrounding every metric and meeting is centered around "student retention" and "credit completion," not the actual coursework, policies, or student culture thereof. Teachers that I worked with who used to have energy and enthusiasm have become jaded and passive. Everyone endures the day to get the pay. Tech is outdated, curriculum is outdated, policies are outdated (as if we learned nothing from Covid). The buildings and infrastructure of many of the schools also tend to have issues: plumbing issues, roof leaks, bad design, and temperature problems. I love this ship and its crew, but I can't shake the feeling that it is a sinking boat.

Manager is always on vacation. She often does not know what people's jobs entail or should entail so her way of supporting you is by sending 'encouraging' bitmoji's. She has favorites whom she gives way too much power to. There is no room for growth at this site and manager will not support your growth either. Instead, she will just add on duties to your already stressful job and get upset if you ask to be paid more. There is no open discussion AT ALL about how to get a raise or move up in the pay steps. She will refuse to speak about it. IF you have kids, you better hope and pray they don't ever get sick because this manager is anti-kids and will shame you for it. Learn4Life is supposed to be about helping students including teen parents, but this manager does not allow students to bring their kids on site so we lose a lot of students because of this. She openly discusses confidential information on the site floor with other staff and even though she has about 3 different offices she could use, she refuses to do so therefore students are always listening and aware of issues going on amongst staff. The educational reimbursement program is great but it would be more worth it if it actually helped you move up in the company, which it doesn't. Most people at this site are looking and waiting for other employment opportunities just to stop working under this manager.