Pay is low but job requires a BA and necessitates finding another job, which means no benefits all around. Quality of curriculum is very low and more about filling time than actually teaching anything productive. Every teacher knows that you can’t structure good classes without planning, and if LSI were willing to take on full-time teachers and actually pay them for prep time, I don’t doubt they’d see higher enrollment. LSI shut down during COVID, causing instructors to lose their jobs, and only hired certain teachers to teach limited online classes during that time. Once they opened back up, they made no effort to contact some of the former staff. Even if they didn’t want to keep the former staff on, it would have been decent to contact employees to let them know that they weren’t being rehired, and it felt like quite a slap in the face to those of us who were discarded after our loyalty to and involvement in the school. At the end of the day, it is a for-profit company and only has its own interests at heart. The other issue is that staff are looked down upon for taking the minimum California state-mandated sick days (3/year) and upper management acts as if it’s unacceptable. I worked there for over three years and never met the owner, as they are not involved at all. If you work here, beware that you mean nothing to this company and they will discard you without a second thought.
