Pros
I personally have stayed at this company so long because of my students. My students are my reason I stay. Not because of the company.
Cons
The company is focused on enrollment only, instead of the overall well being of the staff. No days off, work year round and little support in handling behavioral issue in the classroom are just a few issues that come to mind. ( side note: There needs to be a massive HR change because the turn over rate at in this company is insane. I believe it is because staff does not get any mental days off. Yes, we do get PTO but it is earned over months of hard work and mental drain… many of the teachers don’t last that long to get their PTO. I believe there needs to be a couple of days throughout the year that are given to the staff for mental rest that do not include just Christmas Day and Thanksgiving. ) Staff training is a joke. The veteran teachers are the ones that are really training the new staff, I believe there needs to be one staff that is dedicated specifically in hands on training because many new teachers that go through the videos and online training at GP have no real understanding of safety procedures or how to properly document injuries.) This is an issue, I am passionate about my students safety and feel like something in GP needs to shift to address this. Being a veteran teacher and monitoring 24 students in a classroom while trying to explain firer drill protocol, lock down drills, ouch reports and explaining how to interact with students / parents is NOT the place for it. It divides attention from safely monitoring the students. That’s why I think their needs to be a veteran staff member that’s not admin to be dedicated specifically in training staff members.