Poor Babies - Dean of Students Uncommon Schools Employee Review

- first year of teaching breaks many teachers, 60 hour work weeks plus work on weekends plus teaching certification at the mediocre RELAY GSE, where most will acknowledge they learned absolutely nothing. - You will watch teachers bully children into submission, daily. Screaming, coercing, shaming, humiliating, whatever it takes to get kids to sit and learn and pass that test. What's worse, you'll do it yourself in order to get results. Kids don't deserve this. Black kids don't deserve to be disciplined in order to "succeed". This isn't success. This isn't closing the gap. This is putting black children and future black kids in line so that we let them participate in middle class society. - test scores are subject to various amounts of cheating. Teachers will walk around and coach kids on their math exams and shame them for putting wrong answers mid-exam, then do presentations on authenticity of data. -it's all about the data. your data takes on an identity of its own. The children become data producers, not individuals to be reasoned with or understood. Empathy is applied in the interest of getting good data. -they will disrespect teachers in front of other teachers, mid-meeting, etcetera. Authoritative structure is not to be questioned - and administration will lie to you about decisions. -overworked teachers are forced to have their lives in class. will sit on cell phones and take selfies with students, but not others, showing explicit favoritism. -dean's office is a closed noise proof door. disciplinary problems are handled at the loudest volume possible, and students are often isolated to get them to conform.