Boston College High School interview questions

I interviewed with BCHS for the Instructional Technologist position during Summer 2022. Overall, my time, money and energy were wasted interviewing with this school. To preface this—there is an overarching issue with the administration at this school. They seem to not want to hire sufficient staff to share the responsibility of the Instructional Technologist role. Rather, to burn through one and re-hire every one to two years. This is what I had learned after networking with prior folks who worked at this institution. Now to the interview. I did a video interview—and after that was invited to come for an on-campus interview. The first time I went up to Boston for the on-campus interview, they cancelled on me at the last minute. I had to make a second trip up to Boston to do the on-campus interview with them. It lasted about four hours and I was interviewed by several different teams/groups at the school. When it came time to interview with one of the Vice Principals, the main topic of conversation surrounded work-life balance. I was asked if I was comfortable working long, erratic hours. “you’ll get home at 9 PM and all you’ll want to do is roll into bed.” I answered honestly—I value a work-life balance. Since this was such an integral part of the role, it should have been disclosed early on over the phone or video interview regarding the work life balance. I would have not proceeded to continue interviewing with them having known this early on. At the end of my in-person interview, I asked the CIO about this topic and he avoided giving me a clear answer. It clearly was an uncomfortable topic for him to address. While I was on campus interviewing with the IT team, I remember one of the IT team members referring to the students as “morons”. While this age group of kids (grades 7-12) can behave poorly at times certainly, I found it to be unprofessional and unnecessary to speak that way during the interview. Until change is brought to the institution, I don’t recommend that other IT or Education Technology professionals work here. There are serious changes needed.