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The shining stars in this school would be the SpEd department and the 5th grade team. Otherwise, the administration lacks the leadership necessary to appropriately manage the school to ensure all students are successful. Corporate education isn’t better, although it may seemingly be an option for parents whose children struggle in a traditional school setting (and this is where the school profits).

My daughter began middle school with no transition or preparation from 5th grade, an onslaught of tech issues that immediately put her behind, teachers that either refused to implement her IEP or have not been trained well enough to do so, it taking 3 weeks to assign her SpEd teacher, and an admin team that refuses to accept responsibility or accountability for any of the problems they have caused. My daughter was set up for failure, then forced into a sink or swim situation, which led to a quick and steep mental health decline to a point where it became a full mental health crisis. The Vice President of Primavera became “sidetracked” when I attempted to arrange a meeting with her about the disastrous school year my daughter has been subjected to and present ways to move forward. It’s been 3 days and she still hasn’t responded.

Although the 5th grade curriculum was well-paced and my daughter did quite well, the middle school curriculum is what an adult taking community college courses would experience, except there are 6 instead of 4. We were often doing school work for 10-12 hours per day without any relief from admin or teachers despite numerous requests. Not one of her general education teachers recognized or responded to her unique needs until I threatened to report them to the state for failing to implement the IEP.

Primavera isn’t appropriate for students that have an IEP, 504, mental or emotional issues as admin nor Gen Ed teachers are equipped to meet the complex needs of such students. The rigor of Primavera is only appropriate for students that are gifted, advanced, or only have the ambition for extreme levels of academic success, and that have thoroughly involved parents; students are not able to be independent in their learning.

Otherwise, the education at Primavera is substandard such as most schools in AZ. Barely passing classes and assignments and allowing students to further slide through the cracks is the student expectation I’m beginning to understand through our experience.

I graduated in January 2018 from Primavera. I was enrolled with them for a year.

Overall, I would say my experience was good. I was able to go at my own pace (as long as I didn’t fall behind) which meant I could work days ahead & also log on later in the day instead of waking up early like in-person schools make you do.

What I didn’t like was the forced Synchronous Sessions. Either you attended them live or you watched the recorded version if you couldn’t make it. Some of my teachers had 2 a week which could take a good chunk out of your time. They would include a quiz at the end just so they know you watched the whole video. I am telling you that, depending on the teacher, you HAD to watch the whole video to be able to answer the quiz questions.

Now, I understand that Synchronous Sessions can be beneficial. It was a time for you, the student, to ask the teacher for help with a certain thing you are struggling with (most helpful when it came to Math). However, if you weren’t needing extra help, these were a waste of your time. I rarely needed help so to have to do these sessions 3 times a week or more was miserable. Sometimes, I just took the zero because I had actual classwork to complete. These should be optional and should be treated as a great resource for students who want that visual or extra help. Don’t punish the students who don’t need it.

I would also like to add that if your student is struggling with a teacher because their courses seem to be nothing but an excerpt from a book, try to switch teachers if you can. My English and History classes senior year were terrible and it seemed as though the teachers put no effort into their teaching materials. A bunch of useless information and it was nearly impossible to find the correct answers! Not worth affecting your GPA for that chaos.

Primavera, please find a way to have your credits transfer to in-person schools. Although I am grateful I was able to graduate early, it would’ve been nice to have that option since I had to go online because of moving states mid-year.

My daughter started her first grade here a little late. But she started in September of last year. Honestly it’s been great. Her teacher Mrs.G and her counselor Mrs. Miller are both amazing. Her teacher Mrs.G takes her time and explains everything step by step. Mrs.G also has reading groups to improve reading comprehension and reading skills. The kids have fun seeing their friends on the video classes and want to learn. My daughter’s confidence has grown reading out loud and also with her math skills. A big one was word problems but they are no problem for her now. And Mrs.Miller does lunch bunch once a week which my daughter also loves. She gets a kick out of the all the different voices Mrs.Miller does while reading the story. And doing her lunch bunch groups it’s helped a lot with my daughter’s reading comprehension. They definitely give you a lot of tools to work with in the weekly newsletter and plenty of way to keep track of assignments and grades. I’ve only needed to reach out maybe twice and was responded to quickly. Definitely can’t wait for her to go into second grade. For her it’s been a great experience so far. It keeps her interest and helps structure her more at home.