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This was not a good experience for our family over...

This was not a good experience for our family overall. We have 4 kids and decided to do full time virtual due to COVID. The curriculum is really "canned" and there is no way to personalize it to a child's interests, at all. The teachers say they will help the kids if they need it, but "helping" is just a Zoom session with the teacher saying "you really have to do your work." Plus it is really hard to get OUT of the school. I started trying to withdraw two of my kids in the first week of December and I JUST got the last one out today (Jan 28). If you don't finish every single assignment, the teachers won't just issue a 0 or an F for it, you HAVE to do it or they will not send your grades to the new school (so you have to repeat the class). They didn't assign my son his electives until October and then expected him to complete the whole semester worth of work in just a few weeks. Of course he earned Fs in those classes. It's really hard to get a response from administration (outside of a few select individuals who were instrumental in finally helping us escape). We definitely had teachers who were not qualified - I have a BS in chemistry, and my son's chemistry course was a JOKE. They had things that were slap wrong on the quizzes and tests, and the teachers are not able to change the canned curriculum. The lectures (I sat in a couple just to see what the kids were seeing) were so bad. Oh my gosh, imagine the worst conference call you ever had and multiply it by itself - that is what the mandatory Zoom classes are like. I think the 2.5 star rating is accurate - this school is probably fine for self-motivated kids that are on the middle of the bell curve, but anyone with special needs of any kinds will not be well-served here, in my experience.

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