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I work at a Fusion as well and some of this I agree with hut I'm confused how your schedule can be 16 hours one week and 37 the next. When kids contract a class it's for 20, 25, 30 sessions depending on the level. How can it be possible you randomly have 20 hours extra one week given the way the school contracts? Mine is full now, I'm capped out at 37 hours and it works for me but there's no way I could randomly have had my hours flip flop week to week based on the way courses are contracted.

I do agree the model can potentially set teachers up for burnout but the experiences are amazing in terms of how you get to teach and the kids. [/quote]

Previous Fusion employee poster here.

Parents can cancel classes and it gets NT'd which means teachers are not paid for those hours (sometimes it can be an NS and we will get paid, but that depends on your DSD's policies).  I've had a bad week where parents canceled due to a religious holiday or travel plans that all lined up together and I lost out on over ten hours because students were out BOTH days if not all week.  The fluctuations in hours tend to add up because I often don't know in advance of the month, so budgeting is hard as hell when you can't be sure how many hours you will receive for sure.  The amazing experiences cannot, unfortunately, pay my bills.

I love my students and the ability I have to control my own classroom, but it comes at a heavy cost to my finances and stress levels.  I have to work eight to nine hours every single day to make ends meet and that is eight hours of TEACHING, not grading or planning time (which we receive five minutes of, again).  It's only been a few months now that we've had overtime pay because a Fusion in NYC unionized and corporate agreed to it after years of being in business and taking advantage of their teachers need for pay over their reasonable teaching load.  Eight teaching hours is a hellish schedule when most if not every other school has hours of your day dedicated to planning, grading, and department time.  [/quote]

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