Braindead Admin - Teacher Tilden Preparatory Employee Review

New instructors need to work really odd hours like from 8-10am, 1:30-3:30pm, and then 4-5pm 5 days a week with nothing in between, requiring you to either drive twice to work in the same day or that sit around twiddling your thumbs. if you choose the latter, you are going to miss out on 10 or 11 hours of your day to only get paid for 3 or 4 hours. In fact they kind of rely on a constant flow of new students leaving and joining to make it easier for them to schedule "enough" hours for their veteran instructors. As a new instructor it is your job to fill in the gaps. I was let go at the end of summer due to low enrollment during the school year and then went online to see that they are hiring new instructors in my area of expertise, meaning that they never intended on giving me full hours and that they simply just lied to me. They instituted a hybrid program where all instructors were required to come onto campus to teach even when all of their students were still 100% online. This was "to encourage students to come back to in-person learning by showing them that we can do that for them". I asked around, and it appears as if only 8 out of over 80 students were signed up to be in the hybrid program. I also found out that about half of their veteran instructors opted out of summer, because they didn't want to be forced into in-person learning, and that I was let go so that they could give their students (who had become mine) back to their teacher from the school year. The estimated time it takes to complete a class that admin gives to the parent's of potential students is really the minimum hours for an above average student to complete the course. Management was pretty open about this when I asked them why the estimates are so low, and told me that parents wouldn't sign up if they knew how long it was goin to really take. Once parents find out that the estimates are not going to apply to their child, they have already prepaid for all of the estimated classes, and can't get that money back. they also don't want to do that as then all the progress their child made to getting a grade in that subject goes to waste. It basic sunk cost fallacy. The Administration at Tilden knows it, and they revel in taking advantage of it.