What they aren't telling the new hires is that if you don't find enough students to pay for their guarantee they take it out of your bonus next year and you could end up making even less than you are making this year. The pay was low enough but then they decided to go with the monthly "gurantee" for new hires. It's impossible to fix a 15 year old who hasn't been working well in school all of his childhood, but the people at Epic expect miracles or they cut you.
They expect you to fix their kids and the way they do their work online. I drove through traffic both ways, I was never compensated for extra time. I started meeting people in public places so I would at least have something to do while I waited for them to show up. This meant I would have to drive out 11 different places and see kids who may not even be there when I arrived. I was given 27 students of which 11 were literally an hours drive from my home and I was expected to go see them at least every other week. Your former brick & mortar employer would rather train a monkey to do your job than to ever take you back.Īt first, it sounded great, working from home, being able to set your own hours. There is no way to advance unless you're a family or friend of the founders. Everything seems very unprofessional and kind of thrown together with just enough to get by with, barely. The majority of the "superintendent" and "director" positions are filled with the owners' buddies, that really have no idea what they're doing. They will tease you with this "bonus", but then without any notice because you're not contracted or paid a guaranteed salary, that bonus structure changes and you realize all those long hours, holidays, weekends, summers, etc. They've found a very clever way to have you work a lot more hours for no extra money. Expect to be working nights and weekends without any extra pay.
Not only will you be working more throughout the year for less money, but you'll be working very long hours, too. Several teachers made the move from brick & mortar to Epic thinking they'd make more money, but the truth is they've been there over a year and they still aren't even close to having the amount of students they were promised, so they could make more money and now they make less money than when they left "real school" and they have to work all summer, no spring break, no fall break and only a week around Christmas. They sales pitch you that you'll have "this" amount of students and make "this" amount of money. You are paid based on how many students you have. No big deal, just get it done and move on. These are things required from higher ups that in any job position I've ever been in. I will always view items that schools require me to do that takes me away from the classroom and my students as negative - paperwork and pressure to get things done ASAP even if the deadline is months away. There is a lot of allowance for teachers to just be teachers and make teaching educational, fun and adaptive to students in ways that are often restricted in a regular school. There are a lot of resources provided for students and staff (sometimes a bit too much), and you're allowed to use your own/known resources for students. I like the flexibility and ability to teach my students how they need and not what someone else says. Like with any position always negative and positive elements to a workplace. But I absolutely love working with 1:1 element of Epic and cannot speak for the BLC. I am teaching in the Epic 1:1 position not their BLC sits- I do not know anything about working at the site.
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