Houston ISD reviews

The pay does not compensate for the amount of work. The people you work with are nice but the realization that these are the people we entrust education to is sad. The countless masters and PhDs are nothing but titles are more than half the people are not very bright. The nepotism is UNBELIEVABLE and depending on the campus it can all get very racial or it's about the cliques. I've never worked at a place like this and I was glad to leave. If I could describe HISD in one sentence, it's a bunch of people who peaked in high school and are still trying to hold on to their social hiarchy.

In any other profession, when people are hired, it is with the understanding they have the capabilities and talent for the job at hand, so unless a teacher has shown their ineffectiveness, then leave them alone, and do not make us prove via various forms of digital documentation, that we are executing our jobs effectively. The district is bloated, and unorganized, uses collective punishment tactics, and relies on micromanaging and not instructional support. The new superintendent and school board's lesson documentation policies are supposed to be in place for the sake of accountability, but in application act as easy and lazy checkboxes and also forms of micromanagement and are ineffective in their impacts on student performance/experience. Most of the news policies, just feel like collective punishment, lazy on the admins' side when it comes to actual instructional support, and a waste of good teachers' time.