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      Florida Virtual School

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      Florida Virtual School reviews

      4.3

      87% would recommend to a friend

      (533 total reviews)

      Louis Algaze

      90% approve of CEO

      87% positive business outlook

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      4.4

      Culture & values

      4.3

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Senior management

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      Florida Virtual School has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 533 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Florida Virtual School employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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      533 reviews
      2.0
      Feb 25, 2012

      Never been treated so disrespectfully in any job before.

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      Pros

      Work from home=use less gas. Work in my pj's. Make a lot of good friends.

      Cons

      To many unqualified managers, supervisors that are power hungry. Cut throat and stabbing in the back for any promotions advertised. They hire relatives and friends with or without qualifications. These are the people that get promoted to jobs that aren’t 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. If they don’t like you, they will treat you horribly and can fire you with no warning. There is no one to speak to if you have issues or problems with a supervisor. If you do talk about it, you will be put through the ringer and then maybe fired. Incompetent teachers that are liked can get away with anything, even not doing their job. They say the students come first; completing students for the money is the most important. Supervisors lie to teachers. They ask your opinion and then get mad. Upper management does a lot of inappropriate things with no consequences. If a manager can't get you on the phone, they will hunt you down even if you are in the grocery store or the bathroom on your personal numbers.

      5.0
      Feb 24, 2012

      Hard work, but satisfying

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      I taught in traditional schools for ten years before coming to FLVS, and I've taught at FLVS now for five years. In the traditional schools, I was not challenged. I was frustrated. I saw lazy, jaded, tenured teachers shoving worksheets in front of kids day in and day out. It was impossible to fire them, it was impossible to motivate them, it was an impossible situation--and it was so discouraging to watch. At FLVS good teachers are recognized and bad teachers are fired. It's just that simple. But I think that oftentimes career teachers balk at the idea of being fired for poor performance, because even though the real world is like that, education is generally not. If you're struggling at time management, student motivation, and all the other aspects of your job, FLVS has mentor teachers and other resources to help coach you up. If you still can't figure it out, this isn't the place for you. That's the same as any other job in the universe (except traditional school teaching, of course). Teaching here has been the most challenging and most rewarding time of my career. I appreciate that folks who can't serve their students appropriately are not kept on staff; it reinforces that those of us who are working hard and doing it right are recognized and rewarded. I don't work 80 hours a week or whatever. If you're working that many hours, you're doing it wrong. Seriously. There was a big learning curve when I first started, and I remember working a lot of hours that first summer, but once you get a system down and you get it figured out, it's not overwhelming anymore, it's just your job. I think that people who are so bitter and strung out by their job should go find a new one--go back to the school district where you live. But I have a feeling those were the same people sitting in the teachers' lounge complaining loudly for 30 minutes every lunch period about their assistant principal. Anyway, FLVS does have substitutes--I know because they've been in my classroom plenty of times over 5 years. There's nothing in your contract that says you can't go back to teaching in your district whenever you want. The facts are these: we get paid because we lead students to success--not because we show up, drink coffee, and throw scantrons in front of kids. It's challenging and it's rigorous and it's in almost every way different from traditional school teaching. And that's why I love it.

      Cons

      I would say a con of working at FLVS is that you feel the stress of budget decisions that are made each year in Tallahassee. Working in a school district, you know that whatever happens, once you have tenure, you have a job. With FLVS, our funding is completely based on the legislature.

      2.0
      Feb 23, 2012

      Work yourself to death

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      Pros

      good benefits driven workers intelligent workers work from home provide a service to kids that might otherwise be unavailable Great professional development opportunities

      Cons

      working nonstop no union no real vacation coverage ever changing policies Dollar driven versus students' best interest little division between personal and professional life Your house need to become as quiet as a library I have spent the last four years working here. Year one was decent. Year two was full of rule changes and by year three I hit the wall. Now, I think that I am just nuts in year four. This job will suck the life out of you. Your phone will ring all the time. You will never be able to enjoy a dinner out without your constant do to list running through your mind. The demands are unreal leaving you to constantly chase your tail as you will never finish. There is no alpha, no omega. Vacations are not really vacations because you will return to a mess when you return. You must find another overworked teacher to grade for you if you do go away. However, you will still need to return hundreds of calls (yes, literally) when you return. Most teachers opt not to take a vacation or wind up working during that time. By the end of summer you are so burnt out and then you get slammed again with tons of kids. There is no catching your breath to reflect upon anything that you did ever. This is not good practice for any field, especially teaching. How can you get better without time to reflect and make changes? Do I value a lot of what I learned in this job? Yes! The professional opportunities are absolutely wonderful and I have worked with some amazing kids and educators over the past four years. A lot of students benefit from the services that FLVS provides. However, what was once cutting edge has now been surpassed and I am ready to return to my roots in the classroom. Education needs not to be about "credit goals" (a.k.a. sales quotas) but about true learning and a student gains. As for personal three children I want more quality time than the quanitity of preoccupied time that they are getting now. Hopefully, my husband too will forgive me for ignoring him over the past four years as I have been so preoccupied with the good of the school. Teachers thinking to get out of brick and mortar, don't do it. You finish at 3ish, have real vacations and summers off. The impact that you are making upon students in person will not be replicated online no matter what they tell you.

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