Vantaggi
I started with LMB as a clinician, got hired full time and worked their for a year and a half while taking my teaching credential classes. Being male, and highly energetic, I worked with the difficult kids, which is expected, but not for 6hrs/day. I left to teach but came back in a higher role each summer (mentor, consultant x2, then Associate Center Director). As a teacher, the program works. Depending on who is working there, the culture can be cool. I mean one summer it was happy hours after work, other summers I couldn't wait for the day to be over.
Svantaggi
My last summer there I was used...big time. They brought me in as the Associate Center Director to stir things up. This is a big promotion for someone who works there year round, not somebody who only works summers, even though I was thinking about leaving the teaching profession at the time. It definitely ruffled some feathers and made for a HORRIBLE experience. I mean they basically brought in a 3rd string quarterback to p*ss off the 2nd stringers when the starter got traded, if that makes any sense. Of course I wasn't "cut out to be an ACD" when summer was over. Watch your back, watch what you say to ANYBODY because nepotism is not only a 3 syllable word it's a practice there.
