Toxic - Teacher Texas Virtual Academy Employee Review

You have to be available between 8-5 by Skype. You can download the app on your phone when you're away from your computer. You have regular recurring meetings on Fridays. Sometimes students classes conflict w/times. You may experience tech issues within your course and it may never be fixed. They expect you to make 25 phone calls each week to students/families-but families hardly answer and they will not accept emails as communication--something they need to change. K12 hyped us up for a raise per HB3 but doesn't look like were getting much of a raise-they cap the service years at 5 from your service record & no contributions to TRS; it goes to 401K if you opt in. They won't release any info on the salary scale because it proprietary info (it is said that they increase 2% each year of service but I really don't know- this is my 1st year)--but there are other online school were you can earn more. The flexibility of working from home and not actually having to take off when you have to do something is wonderful. You do get sick & personal days. There's a lot of tracking you have to do as a core/EOC teacher--maybe I haven't gotten my flow down yet. Turn over rate is high but there are so vets within the company and most people are very helpful! You work throughout the month of June, but you have "PTO days" specifically for the summer month off (July). This year we started off with 1 principal and a month or so into school we had another principal (at the high school). Also they require you to go to these "Bobcat Brews" that are a waste of time in my opinion because you will not see or interact with the students you teach and these students will be from all of TVAH at various coffee shop locations across TX. Additionally, these coffee shop managers/owners really don't care to have us in their shop--but what can we do? Overall it's a good place to work. I love working from home/remotely but the compensation can be a lot better.

high turn over rate not enough pay

The ability to work from home

The pay was extremely low and the management it's not an easy message did not seem to fully support all the employees.