Challenger School reviews

This company is deceiving, it deceived me at first too with its strong beliefs and patriotism, but it turned out to be a very anit-military, anti-government, and prejudice company. They are brainwashing children into a very creepy sense of idealism. In order to save $ they have the teachers do a lot of the cleaning. The teachers are treated poorly and talked down to. They take advantage of employees and over work them to save $. The majority of the teachers are all untrained and very few of them have college degrees; they do this in order to pay them as little as possible. There is very little training for any of the staff it is all a façade.

- Huge teacher turnover rates. This is why they are constantly posting on job sites looking for new employees. They lose dozens of teachers every year and make no effort to retain them. - Big class sizes. 30 students crammed into a small room, just like a typical overrun public school. - Corporate does not care if you have valid concerns or feedback about anything. They will tell you to just leave if you’re “unhappy.” - Outdated curriculum and resources. No technology allowed, not even simple overhead projectors. - Curriculum focuses entirely on white men in history and white characters in literature, which is appalling considering over 90% of the student population in California Challenger campuses is non-white. Even for MLK Day, the curriculum includes nothing about him. Representation of diversity is desperately needed. - Policies, events, etc vary completely by campus. There is no uniformity and everything depends on who is running your campus at the time. - No fun allowed. You can’t decorate your classroom. You can’t hold spirit days, cultural days, or any other classroom events. There are no field trips. Anything that would actually be fun for the kids is not tolerated.