Last year this was a dream job. They had a weird setup in that you don't actually teach your students and you never really see or meet "your" students. But it was ok pay...which working from home was good. However, this year turned crazy. They let a big group of teachers go the week before school started this year due to lower than expected enrollments. I felt awful about this. I understand it's the business world, but these teachers would have been able to get teaching jobs easily in the Spring or Summer. They waited until the week before school started to tell these teachers they didn't have a job. Throughout the first 2 months this school year, we just randomly had teachers disappear and didn't know what happened to them...no opportunity to say bye or anything. Then, it was my turn. Received an email that said "catch up - update" and was in a group of another 30 something teachers that were told mid-week that we no longer had a job. We had no opportunity to tell students bye. I can't imagine what students/parents thought when the teacher they got accustomed to was just gone the next day. I told my students, "See you tomorrow"...and never saw them again. I imagine they do this to keep you from letting them know you won't be back. Just super shady!!! These teachers did nothing wrong and developed relationships with their students. Our company access was cut off the next morning. They promote a "family" atmosphere and say they are "educator first"....maybe....until they no longer need you....or their bad practices cause them to lose all their enrollments. Definitely NOT "educator first". I would never work for this company again. Again - I understand if you have to let teachers go...but they led us on telling us they expected no further cuts....and then BAM! Never trust a for-profit education company -- that's what I learned!
