This was possibly one of the biggest mistakes I've...

This was possibly one of the biggest mistakes I've made in my entire life and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I'm sure it goes well for some people, but for me it was the absolute opposite.

I joined FLVS for my junior year because school was very stressful for me as I struggled with bad social anxiety. I got the impression this would be good for kids like me but in reality it was even worse than normal school. It's extremely easy to fall behind on work, and from the experiences with teachers I had they aren't very forgiving about falling behind either, even if you do have a busy life. The DBA system is just useless in my eyes as well. It's terrible for kids with anxiety issues who joined to get a break from that kind of social interaction and got the opposite. It wasn't helpful at all and just a huge waste of time + unnecessary stress.

But that's not what my real problem is. I lost most of my second semester because I got locked out of my account and nobody seemed to know how to help me! I called customer service at least twenty times and nobody seemed to know how to help me. I'm not blaming the people as CS though, they're very hard working and patient to be working with a system like this. But after about 4 months I got filed for truancy even though it was entirely not my fault. I couldn't even get into my account! An administrator recommended my mom to put me in the summer program, saying it was a lot more lenient and I could work at my own pace to get my credits back. I got the opposite again though, being put in accelerated pace and getting kicked out of classes after slightly falling behind because I had a lot going on in my family at the moment.

All in all, my experience was terrible and I'm surprised I even got to be promoted as a senior, even if I'm going to have to work twice as hard on e2020 to get back all the time I lost. FLVS does have its good points, though. I think the blackboard program is a really efficient way of doing group work and the site itself was easy to navigate for me. Some of my teachers were genuinely nice and cared about my education (shout out to my Art History teacher). It needs work though, and the people in charge should take into account students with mental illnesses and making alternate options for them as everyone has different ways of learning.