Pathways In Education Reviews

At Pathways, it's all about the data. If your students aren't making progress even though they are chronically absent or show up a couple hours late, it's your fault. Lots of meetings. Only their so-called small group instruction teachers and the SpEd teachers are actually doing any teaching. The so-called Independent Studies teachers, which are the bulk of the staff, are shuffling papers and are glorified case managers trying to coax more "units" out of their students. Their online curriculum is horrible. School year is year round. Teachers might get one week for summer break.

There are times when the stress of the job can get to everyone. This leads to some frustrations on the bureaucratic level and from senior leadership at times. The job can be dangerous at times, and it just IS stressful. That's the nature of the job. I guess another con then would be compensation. You make less than a CPS teacher doing a harder job. You take your work home with you anyway, just in different ways.