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This place is pitiful, if your looking for homeschool for your kids keep looking. My child currently goes there and if they didn’t make you commit to a year of it I’d pull my child out. After this yr we will not return. The teachers do not get involved, they don’t help your child. They lock all the assignments and will have your child backed up on school work and expect you to figure it out. The lessons are ridiculous and they will ask your child questions that they never even had a lesson on. If there’s an issue or you have a question about a lesson you have to call someone or text or send an email and wait for someone to respond.. which can take days. How do you expect the kids to succeed when the teachers aren’t even accessible? If the child fails a lesson they’ll keep making the child do it over and over and over again but they won’t try to reach out to the student to try and find out why the student is having a hard time with the lesson or what the problem is. Yet when you reach out to the teacher they’ll say we want your child to learn all he can but they refuse to actually teach. There’s no teacher/student interaction at all. If the student fails a lesson and the teacher keeps assigning them the same lesson the child can’t move forward to the next lesson. This place is setup for failure. Don’t bother this place is PITIFUL. They need shut down.

As a student that attended this school. I cannot say how much better it would’ve been if I just decided to go to a brick n mortar. I waited too long in the trap of their system and now I am screwed because of this horrible system. I’m never doing online school again and when I have kids In the future I never want them to do online school either. I’m going to fail and be pushed back only for that to be tarnished on my record for all of eternity. I cannot express the pain, embarrassment and harassment that I have received because of this school. And now my record is forever tarnished by this mistake of a school… Forevermore…

This school is extremely demanding, I had to write a 600 word essay on the moon once, it got so bad and nobody would help so I ended up in summer school which was surprising better than the school school, even if some kids committed a misdemeanor. I will probably not be returning, I should also mention that fact that they give you work that’s grades ahead of your level and I was dropped in 8th grade Spanish with 0 Spanish lessons up to then with no help and they refused to pull me out or change the language, however the Spanish teacher was nice.