preschool teacher

school teacher

child care teacher

assistant teacher

teacher

Kids R Kids International

I worked here for 2 weeks. It was plain awful to work at this place. The management is terrible, the pay is very very low, but the lack of respect for employees is probably the cherry on top. I had 400 pages of material to go through, for training, that was usually expected to be done at home. Unpaid. I wasn’t going to do it for free, and legally they can’t make me do it unpaid, so they let me spend time for part of 4 days to go through and skim this material. Not read it, nope, just find specific answers. This was on top of the training videos that were from 2014 and low quality. I have never seen such low management involvement when it comes to children. I hadn’t spent 10 minutes in a classroom with a manager. They just toss you in the classroom (which they just shove full of kids). If you can legally have 26 in your class by yourself, they will put you in that class. A manager told me that I need to be aware that they can and will put me with the maximum amount of allotted children. And when you take your pay and divide the amount of kids they can make you watch depending on age, you can make $3 or all the way down to $.30 a kid per hour. The management also lies. Speaking with one of the teachers, she was told one amount she was told she would be paid an hour, then told when she started, it would be a different amount. And my coworker saw that it was a lower hourly wage. I was lied to as well. I was told I would be given full time, even written down on my hiring paperwork. Come to find out that was a lie. It was a part time position that might turn into a full time position. As I continue my training I get put in a classroom where there are primarily one year olds. As I am being shown the “proper” way to change a diaper The teacher tells me to make sure I wipe back to front. So I pipe up and ask if it should be wiping front to back to reduce germs. I already know you are supposed to wipe front to back. But management put me in a class to be trained by someone who is probably causing infections. There was more than one child with a rash, I’m sure due to this method. Also there are costs associated with this position, most of which arnt covered by the company. Cpr (I was given a coupon), first aid, and a fingerprint clearance card. As well as company shirts. If you want 5 shirts plus the additional certification it costs around $100. So to work for a company that pays slave wages, you are expected to spend your money. They just subtract the cost of the T-shirt’s from your first check. I would never put my child in this program. And I would never encourage any one to apply. When they fired me, I was told that I wasn’t going to be given a reason. It’s incredibly unprofessional and rude.

Pros

Facility is visually a wonderful place, parents are mostly great to interact with, most coworkers (not management) are awesome, easily get exposed to kids across the whole building, PTO, LGBTQIA+, and they shockingly do incredibly well to work around school schedules for those attending college. However, some of those are dual-edged pros.

Cons

While the facility itself is visually nice, this is purely because the priority is placed astronomically more on appearance than anything else - going above the care and concern of staff and, in my opinion, the children. It brings in a lot of new employees and a ton of prospective parents looking to enroll their children. 

The administration will gives talks about "most important task," but they hawk eye room appearance on what feels like a minute-to-minute basis a lot of the time. This is likely because parents can peek in on cameras at any given time. While yes, clean rooms are incredibly important for a childcare facility - there needs to be a give and take with it. 

The place feels like they let in literally anyone willing to pay. This is great in terms of diversity and getting to know a lot of different kids with different backgrounds. However, the issue with this is kids who are destructive, combative, and those with special needs or more attention required. This wouldn't be a problem if the facility was set up in a way to promote growth and success for these kids - but it is not. They stick to state required ratios only, and do not provide assistance to teachers or rooms where another hand on deck would make the world of difference. 

The administrative team is, mostly, extremely fake. They are warm and inviting with their charisma - and it instantly has that "we are a fun family" vibe to it. However, the more issues that a teacher begins to try to bring up quickly has them prioritizing you less and less. There were a ton of failed promises and claims that, in hindsight, came across as primarily just "how do we have this employee stick around longer?" Gossip is also insanely rampant. 

Neutral: No benefits. Singular hour break for lunch. 

Red flags: administration telling employees they are not allowed to discuss wages (unlawful to ban), failed promises/giving employees the runaround, lack of assistance when needed, no filter on who enrolls, high turnover rate, consistently hiring young individuals as a first job. 

Awful experience for "teaching" or "educational" experience. Serviceable for "daycare" experience. Not a place for growth.

Working at KRK was so ideal and fun to me when I started. I had so much fun with the students and the staff seemed to be very involved and welcoming. What I didn't know is that this would all change after the honeymoon phase. An awesome and interactive workplace soon became a dreadful and exhausting experience with management that sits on computers all day and online shops. 

Very petty workplace. Everyone is gossiping. However, when management is talking poorly about employees to each other...or better yet TO other employees....run. 

You won't be the only one working overtime, because the obvious favoritism in this place works DOUBLE. Classroom leads should not be able to come and go as they please, loiter in the front office all day, and overall not do their job -- just because they're a favorite. Assistant teachers shouldn't have to do a 2-person job. 

Parents often pick up their children late, usually the same ones, daily. Don't expect to leave on time, ever.

Working with the kids is amazing. They LOVE you and are so fun to spend time with. The parents will also express their gratitude for your service throughout the year during holidays, birthdays, etc. It can be very high stress when a group of new students are dumped on you all at once, and they all happen to be behavioral. 

Behavior is almost never addressed. They would rather a student spit on a teacher and terrorize their classmates than risk having to unenroll someone and lose additional income.

No resources for children with disabilities, at all. Faculty assures parents that they will be well-taken care of, but then dumps children on the spectrum in very large classes where they can't get the individualized attention and support that they need. 

Overall, find a different daycare to work at. You won't get the treatment or career advancements you need to succeed or flourish unless you kiss-up MAJORLY. 

Although I truly enjoy working with children and have done so for close to 20 years, my experience with this company, specifically the management,  was unpleasant and disappointing.  I have been employed since the age of 15.  I have always been a hard worker and a team player.  I enjoy accomplishing goals and creating new ones.  I try to be helpful to co-workers and have a positive attitude. Working for this daycare facility changed all of that for me. I have never been so "disciplined" and harassed by any employer as I had with the management and owner of this particular KidsRKids.  They rarely acknowledged good attributes, practices and accomplishments of employees  choosing instead to "write employees up" for infractions that in some cases couldn't be proven, or were frivolous. Such as "unauthorized overtime". An offense that could get an employee fired because they stayed a few minutes later to care for children, make sure staff was prepared to take over the classroom properly or to address a problem. They fired qualified, hard working degreed teachers that had a genuine concern for students for infractions that posed no danger or threat to the safety of students and in some cases, could not be substantiated. Personal issues of employees such as a death in the family, sick children or a hospitalized relative were not given any genuine, sincere consideration if time off or special accommodations in schedule were required to address these needs.  Morale was very low and complaints were numerous. Turnover was huge.  Working for this employer was the worst career experience I've ever had, and I would not recommend seeking employment there to anyone I cared about.

There is no such thing as a typical day at work when you are working in the childcare field. My favorite thing about this job. Everyday is different and that is something you cannot find in a lot of fields. Engaging with children everyday is something I never thought I would enjoy as much as I do. I have learned a great deal of patience from this job and have improved on my time management. As far as management goes all I can say is, I really enjoy working with every member on the team. No one is perfect and mistakes will always be made and dealt with accordingly. Everyone has a different leadership style and the military part of my schooling showed me that. I love my co-workers dearly, they are the ones who keep me clocking in everyday, aside from my kids of course. They have taught me a lot and have helped me grow drastically in this field. Everyone has their off days and their lazy days, some more than others, but I have always felt everyone I work with has been loyal to their colleagues. The most enjoyable part of the job is clocking into work knowing that I'm going to make a kids day, knowing that I get to laugh and share moments with children that they will never forget, knowing that everyday I am doing my best to become even better at what I am doing, my drive has no ceiling. The hardest part of my job is knowing that I cannot advance. When I work, I work with a mission and that mission is to move up and become something more to the company, a better asset so to speak. I understand that I do not have a degree and if that was the sole reason it would be respectable, but there are other teacher with degrees who have be stagnant for 6+
 years and im not the type to get that comfortable so this is the hardest part of this job for me in its entirety.

- Expectations for teachers are too high. Among many other things, you may be expected to positively handle children with autism and/or sensory/emotional/developmental/anger issues when you have minimal to no legitimate education on how to do so.

- The company does pay for hours required by the state of training which is nice.

- Ultimately you might get one hour to plan for your week of teaching so that comes to approximately 3 minutes to read/plan each lesson. Yes, primary school teachers are expected to do school stuff outside of school, but if you work at a preschool center there should be no reason to do so. 1) It shouldn't be the case when the kids are 4 2) You aren't grading anything 3) Primary school teachers get holiday breaks, snow days, summer breaks, fall breaks, and their school day is shorter than when you will get off of work (probably). You may be told not to take work home, but you are still expected to have lessons ready.

- The teacher community is a pretty solid one, depending on who is there at the time. I got a long well with most of the teachers, and became friends with some of them outside of work. 

- Discipline styles for children are ineffective.

- Favoritism was clearly shown from specific admin to certain children. I know we all have favorites, but you've got to keep it underwraps.

I am not saying this is a terrible place to work. I was honestly sad when I had to leave because I loved my kids so much, even the most ornery one. I'm sure there are some teachers there who throughly enjoy their time at KRK.

**If you are a parent of a child who attends: The teachers that I saw, for the most part, really do have a heart for your children. They want the best for them and love to see them succeed and learn.

This place was way too stressful for me & too dramatic. The teachers were often in a bad mood due to poor management and repressed issues. There are no benefits and the pay is terrible with $0.30 raises. The owners are nice but the Director's are very rude and nit picky. They just don't know how to talk to or treat their employees. The place is way too small & overcrowded and the classrooms are full of children. No holidays are celebrated and no glitter allowed. You're very limited and restricted in the things you can do. I would not reccomend this place to work at for anyone. They have an extremely high turnover rate for teachers and they can't get teachers to stay because they quit left and right and find better jobs & they can't get subsitute teachers to come there and work because the subs refuse to come because they see the chaos and disorder of the company and the rudeness of the directors. I've had the pleasure in getting to know many of the subs that have come up there to work and they all say the same thing about the management and how bad it is. The teachers are amazing and deserve better treatment and better management. Alot of the teachers are very unhappy with the company but will not voice their issues because of fear for their jobs and their families. Its a shame. The sad part about it is that the kids are amazing and so are the families alike. The staff is great and hardworking but management needs to be replaced and a better system put in place.

Their motto is Hug First Then Teach, well whenever we had gotten a new child barely anyone tried making them feel welcome or special. Teachers told kids to stop crying and to get over it. Teachers that had been working there were able to leave the room for long periods of time and management wouldn't say a word. They don't care whether you're in ratio or not, you could be way over and it still wouldn't matter. No matter how hard I had worked, never felt valued at all and my mental health was on the line regardless. Their trainings consist of very old videos, and after watching them they expect you to know what you're doing. When started to work there it felt like being back in High School, dealing with the mean girls. There is a HUGE lack of communication throughout the whole daycare. No matter what, even if they're short-staffed they really don't try to keep you there. Whenever you're having issues and call for help, no one from the front desk will come to help or they'll take their sweet time. Anytime a kid gets bitten, you're practically blamed for it since you didn't stop it from happening. Can't ever really sit down except for certain times. Having MULITPLE mental breakdowns during the workday and management still won't help you unless, State or Licensing are in the building. Management has also complained about not having anyone to close but, will still hire people to have no closing hours. Management don't care at all whatsoever. Overall, the kids were the only reason keeping me there.

Not only do you have state licensing standards to adhere to, you have corporate guidelines and family wishes that you have to contend with. Plus the idea of an accreditation process. It can take a lot out of a teacher to try and find clear answers on what to follow and what not to do on any given day. 
That being said, krk Cary-grove has gone through a rollercoaster of changes during the time they have been open. They have a monopoly in the area with the amount of classrooms in the building and offering school age programs with bussing. A family can be at the school for over a decade. Cameras are available for the families and there is a basic curriculum for teachers to follow with students; luckily the directors have always given teachers some creative freedoms with activities to make it more unique in the classroom each year. A lot of the staff give the bare minimum of effort though despite how kind and understanding the current director is. There has been several teachers who still currently work there that do not seem to find joy in any of the children and that’s a shame. Don’t be in the field if you don’t like the kids. The unhappiness of some has really impacted many great employees who in turn left the school and went elsewhere. Instead of being so selfish and self-centered, these “bad apples” need to do everyone a favor and leave. 

Children with developmental and behavioral issues are put into overcrowded classrooms without added assistance. When you make suggestions to streamline processes or make improvements, you are shunned until someone gets injured. At which point they want to blame the teacher when it was brought to their attention previously and such a simple fix to avoid most of the time. There is a lot of politics and no room for advancement (unless the director likes you regardless of qualifications) should you want to join the dysfunctional management staff. Too many important things are overlooked and small things magnified. Situations are escalated unnecessarily. The director has no training and is not up to date concerning licensing, quality rated, or corporate standards. Ratios are consistently over. The work-life balance does not exist. It's like high school. The owner doesn't know his employees (totally detached; drawn only to cute females and tattle tales who want to make themselves look good by making others look bad including lying on them). The owner has his head in the clouds and focuses more on appearances and building aesthetics than the actual program, students, families and staff.It is not a good place to work and turnover is very high.

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