The Goddard School reviews

It got stressful when we would be expecting visits from state or Goddard, but that applies to almost any place you work at when you must be reviewed for efficiency.

The benefits are HORRIBLE at Goddard. They only offer 2 full weeks (10 days) personal/sick/vacation time, and 1 entire week is required to be taken during the week they are closed (between christmas and new years). So, really, you only get 5 days and you can't even roll them over - they expire by the end of the year. Management is another disgrace to this field. They don't care about the children at all - they see children as price tags. My entire career at goddard (one and a half years) they just kept cramming kids into the classrooms, and offered no support for teachers (5 min break to go to the bathroom? forget about it!). When the classroom had full enrollment, they just decided to transition children to make even more room - even when the children were NOT ready to go to the next room. One more thing - lead teachers are expected to do an insane amount of work, for horrible pay. Forget having time for your family. You are required to do lesson planning, which would be great if you actually had time and support to do your lessons - but because teacher turnover is so high, they are always low on staff, but they keep cramming kids into the school so whatever teachers they have they bounce all over the school. They never give you planning time during the day, so you are required to do it on your own time, as well as prepare decorations (all need to be homemade - nothing bought from the store) for cubbies, folder tags, doors, bathrooms, and fill out individual portfolio assessments of each child. Because you get no planning time, you're required to do this all on your own time - without pay.