The most horrific job I have ever had. Worst 2 years of my life.
Pros
There is not one thing I can think of that would be considered a "pro" at this company.
Cons
I worked at CBA for 2 years and have never been more underappreciated. Every success i had was brushed under the rug or taken by management who promoted to to corporate as their own. I took the job to build up my resume and told hold myself over until I received a job as a full teacher. It was the worst mistake I ever made. I was the only certified teacher in the school. Very few employees really seemed to care about the children at all. I would leave mortified everyday after seeing how some of these employees treated the children. The children are wild and out of control due to the lack of consistency in the classroom. Most teachers do not run on a schedule, and have "rotating free play" the entire day. Other teachers spend their time coloring in the corner or on their cell phones. Some children are dropped off at 6am and there until 6pm. Classrooms are over packed and understaffed. Teachers are consistently out of ratio, because management rather sit at the front desk than help in a classroom. The only time we were in ratio was when there was a tour or corporate visit. There was no training. You are thrown into the classroom and expected to know what to do without being told. The management would not explain how the day was to go, and would yell when it wasn't up to their standards. My classroom was in the very far end of the building. There were 12 children in my classroom with no support teacher and ratio was 1:10. There was also no working phone. A child threw up on the rug one day and I had to yell down the hallway until someone came to help me because I could not leave the room. It wasn't fair to me that I had to go home crying everyday from lack of support. Little to no opportunity to advance. You can go from assistant to lead if management likes you. Corporate really just wants money. With my degree I was paid $11.50 per hour to work there. Assistant teachers were around $9.50. The one thing to remember if you are working for CBA is that you and every child in your class is just a number with a dollar sign. The worst part was I was rotated around to different CBAs in the area that needed "subs". They were all the same. I knew it wasn't just my building that was like this.
