Pros
No commute or face to face with students.
Cons
Everything is pinned on a teacher, even course review. You will have people in your grade book that are not held accountable for their actions. If you get called to Tallahassee, it is your certificate on the line, not anyone else that made decisions and changes in the official record known as a gradebook. All purport to help, but truly it is to spy on what kind of job you are doing and if you are "in compliance". There are no steps in salary. The moment you bring a legitimate concern to your leader, you will be fired. Period, the Kangaroo court that calls you out of the blue with no warning will fire away charges that are bogus and spun to their advantage on termination. While they hold all of your sick leave with no payout. I worked there for over 7 years and saw it happen to many of my peers and then to me. Don't leave your district, you will lose tenure if you have it, seniority and any steps you have accomplished. All of the other stuff others have said is true as well. You will work 60 hours a week. You are stuck to your phone and your family will notice that you are constantly "on" as a teacher because hours advertised are 8 am to 8 pm. And you will get calls all day long, and before and after work hours. If you don't answer, your students will mark you down on your surveys that "my teacher does not care about me". If you take a day off, you will still end up answering phone calls and texts while the workload is still there when you come back. If you take vacation, you can only take 1 week at a time (unless you are a favorite of the leader, then you might be able to take 2 weeks at a time). If you have to take FMLA, your class is taken away and you will come back to a job, but possibly not the job you left. It will appear supportive, but the performance metrics are impossible to keep up with and you will feel like you are on a 20 mph treadmill. Many teachers grade on the weekend just to get a good start to the week of tracking students and calling them all each and every week. Can you make 180 quality calls to students or parents each week? Some parents will talk for 30 minutes and all you can do is listen, while 10 phone calls or texts come in during that 30 minutes.
