Uncommon Schools reviews

Uncommon is a brainwashing propaganda machine. They hire people with zero teaching experience so they can mold you how they want. There's a month of training, where you're taught how to control the children behaviorally and very little practical lessons about how to actually teach. They ply you with swag, and brainwash you into becoming one of their minions, and then just release you into teaching with no support. I was laughed at and told i wasn't trying hard enough when I asked my principal for support setting up my classroom. It was a vicious, take no prisoners environment where each interaction was more toxic and upsetting than the last. We were working from 6 am to 8 pm every day. When I expressed concern about driving home because I thought I would fall asleep, I was laughed at. I sobbed every night on my way home, and every day on my way in. I can't say enough how awful these schools are. And if you do last through your first year, which many don't, you're stuck. You'll never make as much teaching somewhere else as you make at uncommon, so if you are as miserable as I was you'll have to make a complete career change. I was "teaching"'kindergarten. I lasted three days with the kids. All I did for those three days was bang my fist on babies desks and scream at them to stop smiling, laughing, talking, looking around, moving their feet, moving their hands, eyes etc. it was awful. I can't say it enough. Stay away. More than a year has passed since I left and I still feel sick when I think about my time there. As a final note, my principal was one of the worst people I have ever met. She was cruel, rude, nasty and ungrateful. I have never had a boss that made me feel sick at the idea of talking to her or asking for help. I cannot express enough how toxic she made our work environment.

At this organization you will be completely overworked. My contract was supposed to be from Monday to Friday from 7am to 5pm. I worked Sunday through Friday 6am to 6pm at the least. Easily could put in an 80 hour week. Not given time for a lunch break and deadlines were not sustainable. Management wants it their way or no way. Micromanagement to the highest and a hostile work environment. You can be giving your everything to the kids and it will never be enough for them. No time to prepare for your lessons and most nights I fell asleep on my work. The most unprofessional environment I have seen. Absolutely no work life home life balance. Sundays an email is sent out at 8 AM and you must create a report from by email by 12PM. You work all day Sunday.