Pros
Many resources, good teachers, nice families.
Cons
Training for teachers is horrific and incomplete. Teachers are only given 1/4 of what they need to know before teaching. It is even worse when this incomplete training ends weeks after school starts and students have to wait four weeks to get a welcome from their new teacher. Lack of communication between participating schools and K12. Some students were not switched into proper class. Instructors have no clear classroom and can view all students enrolled in the school system (FERPA issue anyone?). Impossible to know when new students start. Long chit-chatty virtual meetings that have a lot of content not needed by certain teachers outside of that particular region. It seems that the trainers,the school liason, and the teacher supervisors are not on the same page. No one seemed to know the rules and expectation for my particular school district. Staff joked about how steep the learning curve was for new teachers - it seems like sick joke now. The only true help I received was from the only other teacher working for the school district. Total nightmare!
