Laura S.

I'm a former instructor with KidzToPro, which I liked at first, but soon went downhill. They have u write down ur 5 most preferred classes u want to teach, and they never gave me any that I had on my list, not one. So I'm going into it already a bit uncomfortable...I begged to teach chess (one of my hobbies) but for some reason I never got to, only Minecraft and other computer classes which I specifically asked not to have to do. So having u write down ur preferences is really meaningless...
They also asked my 5 top preferred locations to teach at within San Diego County...and guess what, it didn't even matter cuz they put me on El Cajon the entire school year anyway, and I live in Coronado but the commute wasn't even the worst aspect. At one point my manager said he loved having me there but honestly wouldn't have even hired me had he known I lived so far away (from El Cajon)...what?!? They put me in El Cajon, despite asking me my preferred locations much closer to home. It's like they offer u some aspect of autonomy but it's only pseudo democratic, they place u wherever *they* want or need despite making a point of asking u for ur preferences.
There are some nice people in management but overall it is a very disorganized mess...a teacher at one of the schools I taught a class at told me and another instructor that it's been such a disorganized, unsystematic process (with management) that they almost canceled KidzToPro's contract with them. Me and everyone I worked with signed up to teach their summer camp, we even signed a document via email committing to do so aka a summer work contract...but later they forgot about them and we're doing a different summer camp program anyway (?), for which I was told that I actually wouldn't be able to do the job cuz of low enrollment, so NO summer camp happening at all. Weirdly on the instructor group chat I saw clearly and obviously summer camp was happening throughout the summer, so I asked why I was told differently, and the response I got was that the program I'd signed up to teach had insufficient enrollment, but every one else signed up for a different program (like, what?), we all signed up for the same program! In fact the response was a phone call with a very bizarre, hollow and defensive explanation which left me very confused with basically a word salad explaining nothing. I ended up getting a different summer gig. In early August they call me out of the blue, and literally BEG me to come fill in for someone (in the summer program that WAS happening) who came down with pneumonia, I jumped to it immediately, they even called me at 8:25am (camp starts at 9am) to come fill in last minute for that day/week, in Del Mar which is 20 miles from where I live, I still jumped in the car and got there fast, but apparently my reliability and willingness to drop everything and come rescue them that day again meant nothing...few days later I get a phone call from management with the offer to continue working for the fall, I say yes. Literally the very next day, I get an EMAIL saying they no longer need me and we're letting me go(?!) and would absolutely not communicate with me when I asked the reason, complete avoidance of my texts, calls, voicemails, emails, etc. I called several times to few different people in management, NONE ever answered, but I called a few with a different phone and they all picked up that time, but then just blew me off completely. They lie to me so I couldn't work for the summer, but when they were in an acute crisis they called me up and begged me to come in on extremely short notice, and then just blew me off afterwards when they no longer needed me. Then I get another email from my direct manager saying they're letting me go because of either again "low enrollment" (which is complete bull$#*!) or some strange and obviously fake excuse, but would still give me a good recommendation for the future. Da $#*!? The management I dealt with were extremely unprofessional, disrespectful and really have no place to be running a business.