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Forget About Your Family Life! - FLVS Instructor Florida Virtual School Employee Review

1.0
Jul 8, 2011
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Pros

Get to work from home Great benefits

Cons

It's sad to see what FLVS has become. I use to be so proud every time I spoke to someone about my job and how I finally felt like I was treated as a professional. Boy things have changed! Year after year the demands kept going up and up and the care and quality teachers gave their students kept going down due to these unrealistic demands. Teachers are asked to work extremely LONG hours with no consideration to the fact that these teachers have families. We work 7 days a week with no breaks. When FLVS offers a holiday or school "break", teachers who choose not to work during these breaks come back to an enormous amount of work that has accumulated over the break. Teachers are required to find their own coverage if they go on vacation or take sick time. FLVS has no consideration for its teachers. Policy is that no matter what the student (and their parents) do or say they are always right. Many times students will score a teacher low on the student surveys because that teacher pushed them to complete or did not answer immediately when they called. Completion rate and credit goals have become the most important thing for FLVS. They just don't seem to care about the people who break their backs each and every day to help them be on top of the virtual school world.

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5.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

I am valued as an educator and treated as a professional. I love my principal and my co-workers. They encourage work life balance and listen to feedback.

Cons

I wish we were paid more but that is education as a whole. I do think FLVS flex pays competitively and I have got a raise every year.

5.0
May 13, 2026
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Pros

Flexibility! Ultimate flexible schedule. Day to day I use calendar to schedule appointments and can block out lunchtime, time for a gym class or to pickup or drop off at car line at school. Ability to work from home office in comfort! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️You can set up your space to be most comfortable for you. Coffee breaks and yoga pants all day 🙌🏻Summers are slower in flex so allows more time to do personal summer activities like sit at the pool. Access to email on phone (with a communication stipend) so I can “work” from anywhere. I check email and Teams from grocery store, etc. More time to get to know students during welcome calls and DBAs but I often feel so rushed to complete so many appointments each day that I sometimes don’t feel like I can give each family the time they deserve.

Cons

Can be long hours in front of a computer. Some days I’m stuck in front of my computer for 6-8 full hours with back to back Zoom appointments. It can be REALLY tiring. Heavy workloads pouring peak enrollment times: May/ August and December. Your evaluations are based on your data so parents that do not follow learning expectations and don’t submit coursework affects your negatively. It feels very unfair and frustrating. Monthly classroom walk throughs with your principal feel like a formality and waste of time for high performing instructors. For the workload, I do think salary should be higher. Student loads can be really high in August and December with over 180-200 enrollments at once to balance. It’s a lot. Work-life balance is grossly unbalanced during these times.

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