The amount of required proctoring in person will interrupt your live classes, so you will barely teach during certain times of year, especially the month of May. Many students and parents will get upset (understandably) about this, especially if you teach a state-tested course. You do have to complete a connection call quota every month, and this can be hard to accomplish in the beginning, especially if you are teaching hundreds of students. (Most teachers range 200 - 400 students, depending on your course.) Stride is definitely more concerned with having all of your boxes checked versus caring if the kids actually learn, so the company will be picky about some things that wouldn't even be an issue in brick and mortar. Also, the company will constantly call the students "customers," so this will bother you if you come from the public sector of teaching. Lastly, even though the bonus is nice ($2K - $3K), the raise is usually only a cost-of-living raise every year, and it barely keeps up with the rising medical costs. Our last "raise" wasn't enough to keep up with the medical plan we chose, so we had to drop a level. (The monthly Cigna medical expense went up, but our raise wasn't enough to cover the gap.)
