I studied at this school for over 5 years. Now tha...

I studied at this school for over 5 years. Now that I've moved on from it I can give it a proper review.

First of all, if you're a parent reading this review thinking about putting your child into FLVS, make sure you or the other parent can stay at home. You'll know why later.

It was fantastic. Every single year with every single course I was given proper opportunities to succeed in the assignments. If you studied the material, read the rubrics, and listened to the teacher, you would, with extremely few exceptions, get A's. The only times I personally did not get A's were when I was not putting in effort.

That would be enough to get 3 or 4 stars alone, but there's something else that sends this into 5 star territory, and that is the time management capabilities this school gives you. In a standard public school, you have to wake up an hour or so before school starts to get ready, eat, take off, etc. Then when you get to the school, you have to spend around 7 or 8 hours for each of your 6 or 7 periods + lunch break and maybe recess. When you get home after spending half your waking hours on school, you then have at least half an hour of homework to do... if you're lucky. That is soul-crushing in how much time is used up, and means a bad teacher will be an absolute nightmare. Meanwhile, in FLVS, you don't have to go anywhere if you have an internet connection. With few exceptions, you can wake up when you want, work when you want, and contact the teacher when you want. FLVS literally saved me **THOUSANDS** of hours due to this. I would've had a few hours of free time per day to spend having friends, exercising, and entertaining myself in a public school. In FLVS, I averaged 12 or more hours of free time out of the average 16 hours I was awake. Every. Single. Day. Even then, I still successfully learned the material, got A's, and got high scores on the state testing.

There was only one drawback not shared with literally every public school in the U.S. That is procrastination. I would end up cramming most of the work into the last month or 2 months of the semester, almost every time. If you're a parent looking to put your child in FLVS, this is why someone needs to stay back at home. If someone isn't making sure the kid is doing work, the kid will almost never do the work. This is also part of the cause of many negative reviews, lazy kids, or parents who aren't paying enough attention getting angry that the kid got bad grades because they procrastinated, didn't read the instruction, didn't ask for help, and didn't put in the time and effort necessary to get good grades. Do not put your child in this school if you cannot checkup with and/or help them several times per week. If you are a stay-at-home parent or the other parent is, then go for it, the kid will thank you later. The first semester or two will likely be shaky as the kid tries to learn the system, but if they get the hang of it, you'll have created many opportunities and saved so much time for them.