Florida Virtual School reviews

This is the absolute worst place to work. At first, everyone is very nice and helpful. Good luck after being there over 3 months; that's when the claws come out. They scam you into thinking you are taking a strictly virtual teaching job and then pull the switch-a-roo and want you to go into a local school and/or be accessible via webcam (this is new since they are fighting for survival with new competitors in most counties because of new legislation). ILs (principals) care very little about your needs/concerns and HR is a joke, as I am still waiting for a return call/e-mail regarding a question. I am VERY organized and still had trouble keeping up after working 10-12 hour days! There is no Spring Break and you don't get summers off. When you do get time off, you come back to a pile of grading (which must be cleared within 48 hours of being submitted by student) so you are constantly playing catch up. And don't get me started on the calls. They constantly push "customer service", but in reality don't practice what they preach with their teachers. All they care about is numbers and completions. Education does NOT follow a business model, people. If it did, teachers (upper level management in some corps.) would easily be making 6 figures... STAY AWAY FROM THIS TRAP!

Hours, management, integrity, fear-based leadership, favoritism for those who drink the kool-aid, little down time, abuse good teachers by increasing workload and expectations, reward poor teachers who suck-up and look good on paper, physical looks, younger, and on surveys (meaningless). BTW, most of the 5 star reviews come from "kool-aid" staff members and corporate. If you have ever been to staff conference, bring a barf bag, it makes you sick to see WASPs who prance around because it is a vacation from their family. Once called the "Maternity Ward" everyone raising children wanted this job to stay at home. Discriminatory and arbitrary decision-making, ILs and Leads are NOT to be trusted. Actually, TRUST no one. Suffer PTSD from this job and if you polled former staff, they would admit the same. FEAR-BASED leadership and student diploma mill. Resubmit for mastery, resubmit to raise grade, seriously? Even college level courses; what college allows this? A disgrace to Education! DO NOT leave your tenured job! The last great perk is gone, working out of state! Mistreat employees, and as several have said, they can still sleep at night, soul-less!