Most communication is done all via emails which can work in many cases, but not when the employees don't answer emails or know their job. Most of my issues with K12 stems from the lack of organization or other people understanding their roles/duties. As new employee at K12, I was hired as a teacher and then told to watch some training modules and do some of the readings and was expected to know what I was doing. I was promised a mentor - that didn't happen. The amount work dumped onto a teacher is ridiculous. I spent 12 or more hours per day doing work that a computer program could do (pulling data and makings list of kids at-risk in learning or attendance).
I spent nearly three weeks trying to get my separation with the company straight. Being that I was worked from a home office, I wanted to make sure that I would get the shipping labels sent and I still haven't gotten them. The other thing that surprised me was when my new employer requested my finger prints, K12 told me that I needed to pay a fee to sit down with a HR representative and review my file which would take weeks to do. Need less to say, I could not start my new teaching job and had to pay $80 for another set of prints that K12 wouldn't release, even though I paid for those too.
My last and most profound complaint about K12 is the amount of students assigned to a teacher. I had nearly 300 kids assigned to me. There is no quality learning going on. There can't be when one teacher has nearly hundreds of kids. The thing that made me decide to look for another job was when we had our State standardize testing. The kids that didn't take the test at the facilities throughout our state, we were told we must get those kids tests. They actually had labeled emails from corporate "Hello Stalkers" and told us the ways we needed to located and get these kids tests. They encouraged us to use the fake Facebook page they created to catch untested kids/parents, use Twitter, contact their emergency contacts (grandparents, aunts/uncles), and lastly was to show up on their doorstep and test the kids right then and there. The company needed 95% of the kids tested otherwise they lose funding. Harassment was over the top and ethically wrong. I had families calling me yelling and some crying about how K12 was worse than bill collectors.
Overall, great concept but horribly run and work load is not ideal for good teaching or learning. I don't recommend this company unless you don't have an issue with long hours for little pay.
