Pros
It's a job if you're desperate for a job.
Cons
If you're hired as a teacher, you won't do much teaching. Your duties are 10% teaching and 90% clerical. Students aren't even required to attend the online classes that you hold. Most students don't have microphones so conversations are often typed. It's definitely more difficult to teach a child you can't see or hear. Pay is around 15K less than the pay at a regular public school. I've been an educator for over 20 years and I was offered the salary of a first year teacher. I was told that pay is set by parent company k12 and GCA has no say in what they pay their employees. Even if you are good at your job, you're of no importance to management. My wife was sick and had a couple of surgeries. She was ordered to stay in bed for a couple of weeks. This happened during CRCT testing time. When I told them that I couldn't leave town for two weeks (they wouldn't let me test in the town in which I live) to proctor the CRCT, they fired me. They had the gall to call me at the hospital while my wife was in surgery to tell me that I was terminated immediately. Of course, they wouldn't say they were firing me because I needed to take care of my wife. They said that I was a "bad fit" for GCA. Until this point, my supervisor was telling me and others about the high quality of my job performance! This is a technology company that is technology poor. They operate from numerous programs that don't share a database. You can't run a report that brings the information together. You're required to spend hour after hour jumping into and out of different programs in order to manually copy data from one program into another or worse yet you have to copy data to a spreadsheet and then copy the data to another program. As I mentioned before, if you love teaching, you'll hate this job. If you enjoy endless hours of clerical work, then this job is for you. All public schools are now about CYA paperwork, but GCA takes this to extremes. Also be aware that as a teacher/clerical worker you're also required to sell the school. At re-registration time, if a parent wants to take her child out, the teacher is pressed into service as a hard-sell salesperson. If this program was so great, it would sell itself. Unfortunately, GCA's education mission is questionable.
