Pros
When the kids love you, it is the best feeling to impact them so deeply. There are programs like Dojo/Parentsquare to help with family communication. We have half days on Fridays. *Sometimes* we have "wellness days" and can go home early.
Cons
The Friday half days let the kids go at 12:30 and teachers stay until 4 pm doing PD for hours. Some of the staff are trained in the "old way" and are a little culty and robotic. They claim to strive for racial equity, but some teachers act like this is prison for students in how they talk to/treat students of color. Talk about school to prison pipeline. There are no or little consequences for students who are violent towards other students or staff. Example: there is a child who constantly hits others when agitated, the student gets a "talking to" by admin and is put back in class. The school supposedly selects students via lottery- these awful kids need to be expelled. If you don't want to act right, let's get another kid in here. The workload for teachers is god awful. Teachers quit left and right because it's a lot of work.