Maybe I shouldn't have done it.....

but I did.

Sent a text to the 7th grade science teacher at Renaissance and asked him about staff dress code.

"Business casual," with a monogrammed school staff shirt every day.  What struck me most oddly is that, for the most part, staff has to pay for them.  No pet policy.  Data driven.  Lesson plans due two weeks ahead of time.  This place is starting to sound and look like North Korea!

That last item set the alarm bells clanging.  Something about requiring school staff to wear a staff shirt every day just struck me as excessive.

uh huh

So I decide to go online and do some research. Started out with the school name.  Not much information available, even on  the Great Schools site.

Expanded my search to include all of Chatrer Schools USA.  Most of the reviews are abominable.

"Don't do it!"

"Terrible place to work!"

"Awful leadership."

"Schools more interested in money than children."

Yes, there were a few very good reviews, almost sterling, but I am given to wonder if those weren't done by "trolls," people paid to write them. Corporations do that kind of thing you know.

Couple that with the principal there not seeming to know who I was when I called, not once but three times and not responding to my messages for two weeks.

This might explain why they were so willing to accept two senior citizens on staff and why they seem to eager to have me.  Each time they spoke to me it sounded as though they were afraid I would back out.

My stomach is in turmoil tonight.  as if it didn't hurt enough already.