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Wow. I never thought I'd be writing a negative rev...

Wow. I never thought I'd be writing a negative review for this website but, here we go. NOTE. THIS IS ONLY FOR SPANISH 1. THE MATH COURSES ARE FINE. Going to a junior high school, trying to keep up with the already formidable amount of work there, AND dealing with this course is frankly insulting. Spanish is not math. Or guitar or Language arts. Writing a 10 sentence essay in a language I don't understand is not easy, nor does it teach me anything. I guarantee you, important everyday words that you'd need to write a sentence in Spanish either A, aren't in the curriculum at all or B, so far back you won't use them until the last modules, and by then you'll have forgotten them. Mrs Roche, my spanish teacher, may be the most callous uncaring person I've ever talked to. I bruised my lungs and couldn't speak for a week, WHILE moving into a brand new house and doing construction work for my father and Homework for my normal school. I explained to her why I hadn't been able to submit an assignment and all I got was. "That's not an excuse. You can find time to do it if you tried." Listen, I understand I get an allotted 50 minutes from my school to do FLVS, but 50 minutes a lot of the time aren't enough to submit a writing assignment. Then, you're being constantly rushed to finish as fast as possible. I don't have internet consistently where I live, so doing work at home is not always an option. Finally we have the lessons. The tests and the lessons are SO different from each other, it's a joke. Multiple times it will try and explain a concept such as direct object pronouns. However, it will only show ONE or TWO examples for a pronoun, when there are at least 7 different pronouns for different situations. Completely unhuman, discouraging website and course. Now most of the courses are decent, I took Pre algebra and 7th grade math in 6th grade, and it was good enough to give me a good start for algebra in 7th. But the Spanish courses are downright insufferable. Do not apply for this course. Take spanish in high school where an actual TEACHER that you see face to face, and guides you through the lesson, can help explain and tutor you through these concepts. EDIT. The reviews for this school fall into two categories. Parents, and Students. Parents, (who 99% of the time don't deal with it) will say it's fantastic. They don't have to worry about their child being bullied, have more time in their lives ect ect. Students will tell you about the utter stress and suffering the classes will give you. DO NOT BE DECEIVED BY THE 5 STAR REVIEWS. At best, such as the decent math classes such as pre algebra, it's a decent 3 start school. At worst it's simply a 1 star. I can't speak for full time enrolled students, I'm taking BOTH normal school and FLVS at the same time. Working on finishing Spanish 1 and preparing for FSA and Geometry and History EOC's is already stressful. But being CALLED DURING CLASS because I'm not working fast enough while i'm already stressed beyond belief is simply insulting. Never coming back, never should have came back. I'm a VERY smart kid, I've taken multiple courses online before and I'm currently being admitted into the AICE program, but this is simply out of my league. Getting home at 6PM and immediately having to slave away at ANOTHER set of school work, on top of my homework from my normal school, is not enjoyable rewarding life. You want to know how to fix FLVS? Simple. Get a curriculum that's not dictated by the suits in Tallahassee, get teachers who need to be held accountable for showing respect and decency and patience to their students , AND are easily contacted. Fix the terrible and clunky UI and interface that the website has, and retrofit the lessons and tests so that questions and concepts addressed in the lesson will be on the test. Finally, the end of semester exams, have the ability to take your grade, raise it in the air, and break its back on its knees like a batman comic. The biggest point out of all of those is the lessons. THINGS WE NEED TO WATCH AND READ SHOULD NOT BE IN COMPLETE SPANISH.GOD

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