Well meaning but poorly managed - Anonymous employee DREAM Employee Review

2.0
Jul 29, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-The mission of the program is admirable and important. -Line staff are dedicated to the youth they serve. -Youth recognize effort and dedication from line staff. -Some meaningful outcomes despite inept leadership.

Cons

-Management is quick to delegate tasks well above experience level and then push responsibility for shortcomings on to ill prepared staff, while aggregating praise for succesful projects that were also delegated. -Despite stating importance of work/life balance, ability to gain meaningful time off (without constantly fielding calls, being called in to meetings, etc) is only reserved for leadership staff. -Requests for training aimed at career advancement are often met with being told to focus on current station. -Little to no follow up on requests for supervision unless you're a favored employee. - Only sticks to guidelines espoused in employee handbook when convenient.

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5.0
Jul 11, 2025
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Pros

Enthusiastic staff, gifted kids, leadership open to improvements/always changing, lots of support, lax schedule

Cons

Punishment/disciplinary methods are supposed to be consistent by book but in practice every educator has their own -and very different- method. Kind of confusing for both kids and staff. Don't know if this is related but there's definitely a kid favoritism/teacher's pet energy going on. One actual con is that the behavioral and competence range is HUGE and it's kind of dismissed. Some kids are extremely gifted and hardworking, others cause problems everyday and are evidently behind. Doesn't only cause tensions between the kids but is also hard to manage - makes the whole "we are family" method feel like we're disregarding the "advanced" kids. Need more than just having more educators/coaches in the room to help out with these kids. These are problems in any school but ones I feel like the school should have addressed with all it's resources

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