Pros
Opportunity to connect with students on a daily basis and serve as a positive role model
Cons
-Awful work/life balance .... the network looks to fill every single possible minute with additional work and responsibilities for its teachers. They treat teachers more like machines than human beings. I saw countless teachers mentally snap from the overload -Like many Title I schools, you'll get a ton of push back from the students, and the amount of leverage you have as a teacher is minimal. You can assign a detention, but many students get 5+ detentions a day (and they don't even show up to detention), so it becomes a meaningless tool. Support from home for a lot of the students is often minimal or nonexistent. -The school day is longer than most if not all school districts, yet teacher pay is less -You are constantly being evaluated as a teacher by an incredibly harsh rating system...I saw many skilled teachers get very low scores -CEO strikes many as an egotistical maniac
