Pros
Work from home and technology/supplies provided.
Cons
K12 as a whole is a very top-heavy organization with a high concentration of upper management and executives, often disconnected from the school level staff and experience. K12 Texas is the most cancerous work environment that I’ve ever worked for. The administration will ask you to change student grades to achieve passing rate metrics, the HOS has said if 80% of students don’t have passing grades, we’d lose our jobs and the constant mill of paying for a charter then losing the charter and scrambling to secure a new charter will leave you having to being ready to find a new job every 3 years. Students of color are disproportionately under achieving in this environment, and you will find staff of color specifically in outreach or student support roles, as opposed to administrators and Heads of Schools. Inadequate and costly health insurance and little room to grow. Many administrators don’t have principal certifications or Masters degrees. Advancement in this company is not primarily merit-based. Pay is not negotiable or competitive and your workload will be unmanageable for the metric expectations. Annual reviews will be self-administered and our principal didn’t even meet with us to review our ratings and their ratings of us.
