Georgia Cyber Academy reviews

It is great to work from home, but the incessant meetings and daily tasks coming randomly through email, zoom, calendar, google sheets etc. etc. makes it impossible to get any work done in your contracted hours. On top of several weekly meetings between classes that are supposed to be for planning, but somehow always have an agenda from admin, we are forced to take minutes for IEP, RDR, and intake for the SPED department multiple times a week at any time we are ‘free’. We also have to submit lesson plans 3 weeks in advance and are observed by the curriculum department and principals every other week. They offered me a salary in the 30,000s even though I have been teaching for 10 years, and when I refused bumped it to 41,000. They do not trust teachers and micromanage despite great results based on DATA.

Every year this company piles on the work for teachers. There is not enough time to get everything done 8-5, you will be working after hours or on weekends to stay caught up. You will be micromanaged by a lot of different administrators and expected to write pages of lesson plans. I have taught at many schools and the lesson plan format GCA uses is the most extensive I’ve ever seen. It’s nice to work from home but not when you’re tied to the computer all day and on weekends. This online school is too much like a brick and mortar school, expect you are not paid according to your educational experience or advanced degree. I would not recommend teaching here at all and this will be my last year here. I hope the school board reads all of these reviews from teachers and makes positive changes to improve the school because it’s not just teachers suffering - students are also overwhelmed with the work load and are only given a few minutes between each class.