HORRIBLE! Unless you end up at the right school.
Pros
Good, hardworking coworkers; classrooms that are relatively decent in size with some tech upgrades like smartboards.
Cons
I moved here site-unseen - I'd never been to Las Vegas, and was hired through a phone interview. The principal that interviewed me painted an entirely different picture of the school during the interview. It sounded so wonderful, and I was excited, but the year was hell from the start. I never imagined myself leaving a job early, but I quit at the end of December. We were under constant pressure to bring up test scores, while no resources were given to us to do so. There was literally no reading curriculum. We had textbooks but were told we were actually forbidden from using them. We had no supplies but were constantly told things like "every child needs a notebook for reading and math," and it was quite obvious that teachers were expected to provide these things. No one cared if you had the lower kids or the IEP kids, it was only - why aren't they passing? My class size started at 32 kids for 4th grade, and I had around 8 IEP kids and very limited support. Every teacher at the school was miserable. We always felt like we were in trouble. Morale was lowest of the low. The school had 80% turnover the year before I got there, and 80% turnover again the year that I left. I was working 70 hours a week and still always behind. Observations felt more like attacks.
