Pros
Sinecure. Students sometimes appreciate earnest effort to teach them
Cons
If you are looking to actually teach and provide a positive educational impact on students this is not the place for you. The administration is run all through the head of school without the appropriate delegation to actually be an efficient organization. Many teachers have realized without any sort of management or support from the administration, that they can run their classes in a manner that demands so little from the students to effectively make the job a sinecure. This leads to a school wide expectation from the vast majority of students that as the years go on that demands/expectations of them lessen to the point that seniors are wholly unprepared for college paired with an entirely unrealistic sense of their own abilities compared to their peers in actual academic institutions. There is a rotating door of young teachers as they realize the farce of a school they find themselves in, and that despite marketing itself as progressive, Bay Ridge Prep's teaching style is stuck in the top down lecture format that was imprinted on its older teachers when they went to strict catholic schools-- new and progressive models of education are openly derided at staff meetings, which are lightly attended self congratulatory sermons only taken seriously by the most die hard or those that are new and naive. No APs in the humanities, not allowed to give grades lower than C-, claim that their special needs classes are taught by psychologists on staff (but more often by first year teachers with no special needs training), inappropriate interactions between adults and students, and a cult like atmosphere that has definitive othering at its core.