Pros
Easy to get hired. Maybe sharpen some of your teaching skills.
Cons
Low pay. Unequal pay for the same work. 9/11/12 hourly pay for a HS student/HS graduate/College graduate. You won't get a raise for staying there either - I only got a thank you note for making it through a full year. I interviewed for a full-time management position and only at the end of the interview, when I pressed about the next stage of interviews, did I learn the position was already offered to someone else (what the heck). Also the pay was only 14/hr. The position was taken by someone else already in management, which tells you all you need to know about how badly managers are paid. Greedy corporate philosophy. You are not valued as an employee - their low pay, policies, and business decisions make this really clear. You will probably not learn anything particularly interesting from training or from your experience at the job. I think that's what makes the place attractive as a workplace and I want to dispel any notion you may have that you are going to learn useful teaching or behavior management techniques. Also, false advertising. They claim to make math fun but do pretty much nothing to actually try to achieve this or improve the current state of things. In two years I have witnessed these blockhead owners take zero creative risks and it's just sad because the bar is set so low by the typical classroom setting. This company is also not good at remedial math, the very thing a tutoring service should be good at. Some kids need more attention than others and this is just a fact of education that Mathnasium simply is not prepared for. It's very frustrating to see the same kid struggle and suffer for over a year with no real sign of hope or improvement, knowing full well that if I was tutoring this kid solo I would be able to really help them. I wouldn't mid the low pay and greedy business decisions if we were really doing a good job helping kids. It's always been an enhanced daycare service and when the pandemic hit, their cards hit the table and this company got exposed for the greedy frauds they are. They have had over a year to improve the online service and have only made a couple insignificant changes to the administrative process. A company like this deserves to fail, and I hope a better one takes its place. Also, one time a student was taking sexual pictures of a fellow instructor (a high school girl) and when I took the student aside and raised the issue to management the kid got a "don't do that again". This was a teenager not a 5-year old. So yeah that's the sort of culture here. Customer is king, they will never ban a bad student unless they hurt other students. Doesn't matter if they've just brazenly committed sexual assault to your employee who is a minor. Sickening.
