Working at Huntington Learning Center in Plymouth, MN: 1 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Plymouth, MN Area

"I worked at Huntington Learning Center in Plymouth, MN for three years and worked at another Huntington Center in the Twin Cities previous to this job. The previous center went out of business. The compensation is quite poor, even for licensed and certified teachers with Master's degrees. The starting pay at that time was about $13 per hour with only slight increases every year, that is, if they notify you that they want to give you an annual review. They would hold employee meetings starting at 8 p.m. on a Wednesday night and these would last until at least 10 p.m. Employees who are not scheduled for that day must make a special trip to attend and absences are cause for dismissal. They know many of us are teaching full time and this makes for a long day. The fellow employees are nominally helpful and there is no opportunity to make friendships on the job because it is constantly busy. The supervisors are constantly meeting with prospective parents to bring in more income for the center. The instruction materials used are very old and updated and probably from the 1980s. Corporate Huntington does not wish to spend the money to purchase and update new materials because that would cost so much money for the copyright. With the advent of the internet, there are so many reputable websites online that could be used for student instruction thus saving money. I am sure that Huntington charges anywhere from 49 to 80 dollars per instruction and this is a high cost. I didn't like my tenure at any of the Huntington Centers because of the low pay, and high stress (the teacher would have up to 4 students) at one time sitting at different carrels and this would be very stressful. The teacher must be careful of what is said and you never know who is reporting on whom. Avoid working for them."