Phoenix Academy

"Don’t work for this company or send your kids here. They take advantage of their employees every opportunity they have. They pay well below the industry average and seldom offer raises. Abnormally high annual employee turnover rates. Extremely low employee morale. Leadership is disconnected from staff and students. Executive Director (whatever that is?) is not certified as a Principal or a Teacher. Principal is not certified as a Principal. How does that work?? This is a “company”, not a “school”, and a bad one at that. Make no mistake about it, profits here come before anything else. In the process of exposing multiple, documented instances of unethical and illegal activities. Forging attendance records. Changing failing grades to passing grades. Manipulating graduation numbers/rates to maximize funding. Hostile work environment. Workplace bullying claims to HR go unanswered and swept under the carpet. No supplies ever on hand for teachers and students, copier/printer rarely functions, yet somehow the leadership team and their “chosen few” regularly have questionably expensive lunches, paid for by the “company credit card”. Wings are their favorite. Paid little to no attention to federal, state and SDOL safety mandates throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Some on the leadership team don’t even understand square footage or how to calculate it. Stay away from this toxic wasteland at all costs."

"Don’t work for this company or send your kids here. They take advantage of their employees every opportunity they have. They pay well below the industry average and seldom offer raises. Abnormally high annual employee turnover rates. Extremely low employee morale. Leadership is disconnected from staff and students. Executive Director (whatever that is?) is not certified as a Principal or a Teacher. Principal is not certified as a Principal. How does that work?? This is a “company”, not a “school”, and a bad one at that. Make no mistake about it, profits here come before anything else. In the process of exposing multiple, documented instances of unethical and illegal activities. Forging attendance records. Changing failing grades to passing grades. Manipulating graduation numbers/rates to maximize funding. Hostile work environment. Workplace bullying claims to HR go unanswered and swept under the carpet. No supplies ever on hand for teachers and students, copier/printer rarely functions, yet somehow the leadership team and their “chosen few” regularly have questionably expensive lunches, paid for by the “company credit card”. Wings are their favorite. Paid little to no attention to federal, state and SDOL safety mandates throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Some on the leadership team don’t even understand square footage or how to calculate it. Stay away from this toxic wasteland at all costs."