childcare provider

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Jefferson-Parish

It all depends on what position you have the amount of task you are responsible for. Being Early interventionist Specialist is the worse position to have, you are expected to do class presentations, grade test for second step curriculum, handle the homeless program, monitor attendance to give referrals to FINS, school duty while still finding time to provide counseling deal with crises and documentation. However, other positions such as SPED and clinical only responsibility is to provide counseling and attend meetings. There’s a lack of support with management. Management says that if school staff fails to follow policy when it comes to a crisis situation then the counselor is liable. Principals and teacher get to do what they want and don’t respect nor appreciate counselors. School staff call you for every little thing even if it has nothing involving counseling. You will have burnout, and if you don’t then that means management likes you.

Most employees are miserable as evident by the constant turnover in the department with employees retiring early and leaving for other jobs and opportunities.  The Director of Social Services is lacking in leadership qualities as she micromanages and interrupts services to students with menial spreadsheets that are redundant and often sends out the incorrect forms wasting employee time having to re-do the work on the new corrected form. The  work environment is fascist, mean-spirited, full of double-speak and coercion, full of cronyism and a mean-girl club.  Employees are overworked and demeaned by busywork assigned without their input and the department is run via arbitrary, redundant dictate, creating obstacles to the most important and meaningful aspects of employees work which is to provide therapeutic services to at risk students. Unfortunately, the Executive Director of social services and the chief of schools turn a blind eye and act as though everything is great.


When you work for schools, you know the pay will not reflect the work. However, this school system has a history of demanding more from their staff employees to support the teachers without allowing an appropriate amount of time to complete tasks. The work days are often only 7 hours, which seems great except the work load is that of a 9 or 10 hour day. Staff is often an after thought when it comes to any stipends. And despite the fact that most office staff "donate" time to the school to complete work or assist with student activities, their stipends are always half of what the teachers are given despite the fact that the stress and workloads are similar. As the largest school district in the state, they should do more than advertise on social media that they appreciate the staff. It is a high stress environment that leads to burn out and no real compensation to make it worthwhile. 

Central office is pretty clueless on what is practical within the schools.  They come up with what they believe are "great ideas" on paper, but in practice cause a lot of headaches for those having to actually implement them.  Most of the co-workers are nice.  Central office does NOT let the deans of discipline do their job and make the schools not put out students that have no interests in learning and want to disrupt those that do want to learn.  Each year, the district comes up with more ridiculous paperwork for teachers to deal with along with increases in class sizes.  The "21-27" average class size is a joke.  It takes into account small self contained classrooms that will help the numbers look better.  Reality is you will be facing average classes of 25+ with many classes being over 30.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The students and some colleagues.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The increasing workload for no additional compensation. More and more got added and less and less was achieved. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Apathetic at best. Folks were existing and surviving; not thriving.

The job provides a great time management for parents and young employees looking to jump start there careers. It is a very old system that can be quite stubborn so don't expect to come in and make change. 
Not to mention the "great" benefits. The healthcare is definitely word class. But the salaries, time off, and stipends are insulting.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The children are the best part of the job

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Not having all the equipment needed to teach the students.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Great work environment and culture.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Most days it was great. Some days were stressful.

Starting out they can be nice, but switch up quickly.
Their time management is all over the place and they do not take criticism well.
They pile too much work onto one person and expect it to be done if not, "make more time".
They do not allow you to find out how to work better or faster.
Even when reported nothing happens.

A typical day at work is learning the students names.I learned new things in different subjects.Management, I was in control.enjoyed my co-workers,the hardest part of the job, was when the students started fighting and i need help breaking up the fight, i have gotten hurt.The most enjoyable part is spending time with kids.

Education is a wonderful field to be a part of, and the work is important to so many. I enjoyed the work I did with the parish and made friends along the way.
My only complaint was being forced out due to budget cutbacks. Though, that decision was made to afford teachers a pay raise, so I can't be too upset about it.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Childcare provider 7 salaries reported	$7.50 per hour
Teacher 1 salary reported	$56,150 per year
School nurse 3 salaries reported	$73,133 per year
Mental health technician 2 salaries reported	$56,800 per year
Educator 2 salaries reported	$39,750 per year

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