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Overall this place is amazing if you want to work with children. If you don’t you might not like it. The pay is ok and the hours are ok if you’re a college student looking for a part time job. This is a hands on job. This job give you the experience of being a teacher for four hours a day. Depending on your team this place will feel like Disney world. If the team is weak it will crumble and you would find yourself regretting your decision to work here. You can move up from counselor to assistant in no time if you’re willing to take on the extra time and challenges. 40 DCF hours is required to work with children by law. Best advice I can give to a new counselor is to stay out of petty drama, you are a counselor not a teacher, parent, director, assistant know your place, be nice, and don’t take everything personal. You only get paid if you come in early not if you stay late. If a director asks you to stay a few hours after closing don’t do it unless it’s out of the goodness of your heart. You are not allowed to take children home no matter what. Keep all the bad energy outside the gate because kids can feel the negativity.

i loved working w/ kids but the work culture is toxic. they will trash talk you and create drama. CEO doesn't believe that counselors should be paid more than 9$/hr!!! to work with 20+ kids in a classroom is HARD unless you are strict with the students. teachers will complain about ASP for anything and everything, and will blame ASP for anything that doesn't suit their standards. i had to pay out of pocket for daily activities because management WILL NOT pay for anything unless it is the beginning of the school year, which ended up with someone STEALING my things and NOT returning them. the hours are good because it is part-time (5 hours a day) and you get the weekends off. 

they also say with each year you are with them you will get a dollar raise. FALSE! i was with them for 2 years and not once did i ever see a raise!

i loved going on field trips with the students during summer-time and i loved working with them but i would have to say the hardest part of this job is getting paid less than 10$/hr for taking care of 20+ students, while teachers breathe down our necks to point out anything we do wrong and promptly report it to the principal. 

i started as a counselor, at the beginning whats not to like. My group was awesome. Coworkers were amazing and boss was a gem! Then the company started adding on so much to the counselors plate of responsibilities and not compensating us for all the extra work we were doing. Not to mention all the other changes in the policy and rules. Ridiculous! 

So many people come and go its ridiculous! They are always hiring because people quit left and right within 2 months of employment because its just too much for
Too little. Its mot worth it. 

As an assistant director, the responsibility was a heavy load. It all depends on where they place you and where you work. I had to deal with an incompetent director, always bossing everyone around, taking the credit for everything and doing all she could to make everyone around her look bad. I had counselors stealing from each other and the drama was THICK! It became such a hostile work environment that i would literally cry on my way to work. 


It shows you how badly they need employees in this company! IF A DOG HAD HANDS THEY WOULD HIRE THEM!

Starting pay $9 .50 increase after taking dcf training even though I'm one class away from my B.A. in ECE?! I've workes as a teacher's assistant and as a head teacher so I have experience, but that didn't matter. The hardest group is the kindergarden class, there are about 25 children that one teacher is responsible for with the help of a couple fourth graders. The fourth graders are ok but it makes more work for the counselor to supervise 25 children in addition to them. The activities to entertain the children are sort of wack (puzzles, coloring, etc). We are required to wear uniforms, which are ugly (look like a Target employee). I didn't set up direct deposit so they were to mail my check and they didn't. I waited two days before calling the office to inquire, it was sitting there the whole time. After picking up my check it wasn't able to be cashed it was printed wrong (another employee had the same issue).

The hours are ok, but when hired I was told that there would be an oppurtunity and was never offered AM shift hours. 

Only suitable for retired, extra income seekers, people trying to get experience in the education field.

The good thing about this job is that it's a great place to work if you're in college. However, Asp company can care less about the counselors, the school that I worked at was very different from other schools. They basically pushed me and others to work at this school because nobody else wanted to because they knew how bad it was and they basically took advantage of us because we were brand new and really didn't know anything. Counselors are told to teach the children paths, Zula and, spark but Asp never fully trained us on either one of those things, basically throwing us in the fire without any proper training. With all the work that Asp and the directors put on counselors to only get paid $8.10 an hour is ridiculous.    It may only be four hours a day, but that's four hours daily of dealing with disrespectful children, unprofessional and unorganized company/school, counselors that are forced to teach students work of a teacher without being trained on anything. So tell me is it really worth it?

ASP do not follow their own missions or standards they set, company is unorganized and not well put together, really dont care about the kids or staff.
They only care about the program when it's time for inspection or when it benefits them. You have to make sure whatever yo do your covering yourself. They also make promises to parents and kids that they do not keep unless you're a full pay school, grant schools can barely get supplies when needed. 
Staff coming put their pockets every time an event is planned because ASP do not supply funds again unless you're a full pay school. 
Also have Counsel doing Director and Assistant Director work without correct pay. 
They'll be quick to use you until they dont have to no more.

As an After Care Counselor, it has it's ups and downs. I absolutely love children, they life's precious gifts; however being around them while being disrespected by them at all times is not really what I expected. On a typical day, the children would meet in the cafeteria and sit with their groups and wait for the counselors, or running around, and talking loud and enjoying the rest of their days before going home.While working at Miramar Elementary, I've learned how to have more patience because dealing with kids require a lot of patience. The hardest part about working at Miramar Elementary is making sure the children do not hurt each other. The most enjoyable part of the job is seeing the smiles on the children's ' faces every single day. The work environment is amazing, cheerful and enthusiastic.

ASP is the worst place I've ever worked at. We were always unstated with an constant increase of children. There was a point where it was just me (pregnant at 6 months) and my director with about 80 kids. We were staffed once with a total of 6 counselors and our director, but everyone dropped like flies because of the abuse we were receiving from the higher ups. We were expected to do the job of a regular school teacher when in reality this was a after school program. Kids should be entertained and should be having fun. Not locked up being taught things that they were in school for. I dont recommend working for to anyone nor do I recommend you leaving your child in a program as this one.

I honestly do not know why the reviews on this company is so high. This job is really dependent off of what school you are placed at. Management (corporate) changes things without notice, they're money hungry, greedy, and they basically pay their workers with gum and fairy dust. If you have REAL bills to pay, this job isn't for you. Anything to save a dime, they will do. Turn over rate is TERRIBLE. People are constantly quitting causing schools to be overstaffed. If management doesn't like you, they will figure out a way to get you out.

Other than that, I met some really amazing people who I am very good friends with to this day.

This job is great if you go to school, other than that I wouldn't work here. The pay is ridiculous for the amount of work done, at least at the cite I worked with. The post says $ 8.05-9.50 thats a lie you start at $8.05 and if you complete the dcf certificates then you get a 0.45 cent pay increase. I loved working with kids it is the only reason why I stayed and my site director was amazing other than that I would've left months ago. The CEO does not care about the counselors they definitely deserve to get paid more. If you go to school or this is your first job I would go ahead and apply but if not I wouldn't.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
School counselor 47 salaries reported	$15.21 per hour
Site director 2 salaries reported	$18.50 per hour
School program staff 7 salaries reported	$15.79 per hour
Assistant director 2 salaries reported	$17.00 per hour
Tutor 4 salaries reported	$45.88 per hour

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