Pros
Typical parent and student drama of a high school. Most parents and students are great to work with though.
Cons
If a poorly written spinoff of "Mean Girls" were a school, this would be it. There is a secret group of Caucasian employees and parents that make decisions at this school and they are favored over everyone else. Even if the majority of students and parents like you, if these people say no to you, good luck. In fact most of the AA employees (I'd say close to half) don't identify as Black /don't affiliate with initatives for Black students on campus. This is a very large school where it's easy for someone to get rid of you if they don't like you. It's so big to manage that everyone is focused on their own department and not really overseeing what they're supposed to be. For example, they have an AP whose title is "Director of Curriculum and Instruction," but instead of overseeing all teacher evaluations, they put different APs in charge of evals by department. This means if that specific AP doesn't like you, then regardless of interactions with others in your department, they will take you out and ask zero questions. This leads to the biggest problem of the school: the admin. They generally have a palatable contempt for all teachers. They think you've overpaid, lazy, and have a bunch of free time so will micromanage and overschedule you as a probationary teacher. They also pressure/blackmail you into doing volunteer functions outside of your job role to "earn" tenure. Again, this is still not enough if the "clique" doesn't like you. That being said, they don't want Black people, specifically Black men, here in the first place. The first red flag will be if they give you an offer but keep making you go through extra hoops to get it finalized. The second will be all the sisters lamenting that they don't see more of us staying on after the first year. A lot of staff from the predominant demographic have this arrogant attitude that you should be grateful that they would even let you work there in the first place. This is despite the fact that they're secretly broke and need to bus minority students (and take resources/funding away from their communities) from halfway across the city to shore up their enrollment and ADA funding. They want the dollar signs those students bring but not teachers who look like them and can readily relate to them. This is peak hypocrisy rooted in spite and insecurity about their own mediocrity. You don't know there's a significant problem until the day they fire you. It's a PWI so if you're not "W", colleagues will constantly badmouth you (but smile to your face) to the point you have to ask other colleagues to go back and explain/rationalize what you did. As an African American male teacher they will give you the BIPOC students that the predominant demographic don't want /don't know how to manage and fill your classes with them. Ironically when you thrive with these students they will get jealous and badmouth you further. Some Caucasian parents tight with the admin clique will get jealous/complain when you're tailoring/presenting content in a way that benefits everyone. The BIPoC who are in admin are tokens. For example, if you have social studies you will likely have AL as an admin. He is a careerist and opportunist. Skin color doesn't mean anything, don't trust him. During post eval conferences he will praise your lessons then trash you in the writeups. If you have any issues with parents, forward them to your department chairs, never to him. He will take emails and twist them against you then go the board and lie on your name to get you fired.