Run away fast and Don't Look Back. - Paraprofessional Laradon Employee Review

- Management - Safety - Training - Stress - No real breaks The kids are dangerous. Every day you work for Laradon, you risk serious injury because of the nature of the kids. They can be lovable, but it's one of the single, highest stress environments you can put yourself into. Chances are, you will get struck by a child/teen/adult who may be as strong if not stronger than you are. This is their last chance for being enrolled in any kind of school, which means they have already been rejected by public schools due to their negative behaviors. Working with the kids can give you moments of personal value in developing their skills to return to the rest of society, but in practice it isn't like that. It's much closer to a preschool for adult sized toddlers. If you can handle that, then by all means. But it isn't worth the pay. Many of the staff have gone home crying after work from how difficult it is, including myself. There is a lot of pressure to behave in very specific ways around the children and often it isn't possible. The Laradon administration recently blended all of the teams across the entire school in an attempt to make things better. It has created a very negative and poor morale environment of which most people there actively hate their jobs. Presently, the management is actually working on ideas and incentives to prevent people from calling out at work, including banning call outs without vacation time. They've been hiring new waves of staff who have no idea how to work with the kids and they're losing staff left and right. To my knowledge, 8 people have quit this week, if that gives you some idea of how poorly the site is being managed now. I will re-iterate what I mentioned earlier. Run Away and do Not join this company or you will hate yourself for it.