Connections AcademyReviews of connectionsacademy.com

Even one star is too good to give this piece of shity school. The live classes are so boring, the kids don't talk via mic only chat, the teachers don't seem to know what they are doing, the electives are so boring because there are no live classes and the teachers don't even reach out to ask how everything is going with school. 100% of the learning is done independently and the curriculum is stupid and boring. STAY AWAY FROM THIS SCHOOL AT ALL COSTS! THEY DO NOT VALUE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN. THERE IS NOTHING IN PLACE TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN ACADEMICALLY, NO SOCIAL EVENTS WHERE YOU CAN TALK TO OTHER STUDENTS.

The tech support for this school is so very terrible! They are not worth the effort of even calling. You will be instructed to solve your own login problems using links that don't work. They couldn't find me or my students learning coach information in their system. They proceeded to say that they couldn't help us in any way shape or form. How is this an accredited online school without a useful tech support?

It was impossible to understand, teachers did nothing to help when I was locked out of assignments. They kicked me off and didnt tell me even though I had the required amount completed. They dont care about their students mental health or time. And they switched my password to the computer (which is the only computer I have right now) so I cant access it. I have stuff to do that I needed a computer for and they F'ED ME OVER. I wish I wouldve listened to my gut about not joining this bs school.

We chose Connections Academy for our Kindergartener because we were worried about him being mistreated in a brick and mortar school (he has severe adhd and possibly mild asd). At first it seemed like such an ideal compromise between public school and homeschool, but I have quickly realized that this is not a good fit for our family. I have a 5 year old, 3 year old and 11 month old, and when I tell you it is near impossible to be my son's learning coach and work one-on-one with him for a minimum of maybe 5 hours a day WITH a 3 year old and baby needing my attention constantly, I seriously mean it! It causes so much stress. My son loves the routine and "checklist" mentality of the work, but as a mom to 3 littles I cannot do this on my own... I personally think the curriculum is a bit much, as if high-academia Harvard professors without any kids of their own wrote this stuff "for children". It is pretty dry and repetitive, and takes way too long to complete most days. So my husband and I are planning on pulling our son during winter break and going back to homechool for now, that way I can control better how much time we spend and what we learn and incorporate my other kids into our learning as well. Altogether I don't think I would recommend this kind of learning for big families with lots of small children. However this might work well for families with one child and a parent who can dedicate the majority of their day to teaching that child as if they were still in public school (6 hours a day, 5 days a week). I'm leaving this review for other parents to see and consider before enrolling their kids. I'm not looking for an answer or response at this time.

I would like to rate this school zero stars if I could. The curriculum itself is fine, but the high workload and not enough help from the teacher is getting old. Having technical problems? Don't hold your breath. There is not enough information on how it is supposed to work and why is there so many websites and apps are there for myself and my 3rd grader supposed to keep track of, let alone trying to remember what information is on what website. Live lessons aren't long enough and teachers don't call on or wait for participants in activities. My 3rd grader now hates school because of this experience.

I give this school 0 stars let me tell you why!!!! They act like they are So concerned about your kids when they are not my granddaughter is in the 12th grade she’s 17 and she has not been doing her work which it is not acceptable her mom is out of town working and she has my 43 year old cousin there in her place to watch over her kids while she works I gets a phone call from the principal because they sent out a welfare check out for my granddaughter my granddaughter has a Mental illness but the principal didn’t care about that at all she said that’s not an excuse then she went on to say there’s just too many red flags so I asked her what are you assuming and trying to Extenuate red flags so she went on and on and when she hung up I called my granddaughter’s mother so my daughter called the principal and do you know that principal call CPS yes she had the nerve and the audacity to call CPS the principal supposed to call back on that Friday October 18 2024 or that following Monday well guess what she never did she knew what she did was wrong you call CPS on a person when that parent is beating or not feeding or neglecting a child not because a child is failing in school i’ve also told the principal this is how I know my granddaughter is not taking her medicine she is a mental patient once she started taking her medicine again she is doing her work I recommend you not send your kids to this school at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m still waiting on that principal to call me back I have some nice little words for that principal I’m not disrespectful at all it’s just what she has done was so wrong So Parents please think twice Before you sign your kids up to Connection Academy

This school has been good because it has been remote and got my kid to be home. We liked that option and it is free. The bad news is that you don't really learn anything. We are in our 3rd year at this school and I can't keep her here no more. She struggles so bad and not passing state test because there is no hands on learning and helping especially with her IEP. The live lessons do not keep her attention. There is no support here. They do have extra help for math but their IXL program also does not fix her math struggles. We need something different. If I keep her in this school, she will not make it to college.

Be AWARE of the complete incompetence when enrolling your child. It's has been 3 weeks from the time I put an application in. When doing the application you need a ton of documents which took me a while to gather but I had them all and never needed to do extra like some have to go through. Their process to enroll and get a kid started is absolutely ridiculous. There's little to no updates, if you call the info or help line after sending application you never get the same person, that is if you can even get a person to answer. Even after all that it's like they're just hanging out and will get to your child's enrollment when they feel like which at this point has been 3 weeks from the day I submitted everything. I called so many times now just to verify what is next. They said this intent to enroll form from his last school would take the most time because my sons old school has 10 days to send it back. So I was ready. I even called the old school to make sure Connections had the correct email then called to tell Connections. After two weeks I see Connections finally sent this form for them to sign and send back to Connections. I was CC'ed on the email and they still sent it to the wrong person at the old school. So, seeing that, I called my kids old school and it was forwarded to the right person and while I was on the phone with the correct school official she filled it out and sent it back same day. It took Connections TWO weeks to send this form to his old school! Had I not been on top of it all, the old school technically had 10 days to send that back. That right there told me I was in for a long ride. Meanwhile my son has yet to start 10th grade. And to think I placed him into an online school due to him falling behind the year before due to bulling coupled by incompetence is so aggravating! My "to do list" is complete and has been. I've called to find out what were waiting on and they say we're waiting on a school councelor to assign him classes and we're still in "pre start" phase but that I should have nothing to worry about because the teachers will let him skip over what he's missed for the most part. BUT my son was already behind in a core class like Math which I don't think will be easy to just jump into after over a month of classes has already been gone by. I say a month because I was told materials will not be sent out until he is fully enrolled and the shipment takes about a week to arrive so my best estimate is we will be at week 6, maybe even 7 OR MORE weeks to get him started. Which is absurd! I applied to Connections Academy over a week before school started thinking my kid may possibly miss a week of school maybe 2 and even a second week felt like a stretch but over a month, possibly 2? Now I'm afraid I should have went with a different school and starting to think about how that would even work since there really isn't anyone who can help in anyway at Connections when I call. Every call thats actually answered has never given me any Information I didn't already know. Very incompetent! I let a lot of this go as I figured once he does get started communication will be good. Reading reviews is making me think that is probably not going to be the case. In fact, some reviews completely go against what I was told about several things by Connection Academy recruiters. For instance, I was told the "live lessons" were live and that the teacher could see all his/her students and that they could raise their hand if they had a question like they do in a traditional school environment. I'm not sure what to think except my kid needs access to a SAFE place to learn NOW. It's bad when even a high-school kid is asking when he will finally get to start school. All in all I'd say to anyone thinking about applying to a Connections Academy school is to do your research and if you still decide to put that application for enrollment in, DO IT ASAP. I had no issues with being able to provide all the necessary documents and did everything else that comes along after that the same day it was presented and this process is likely going to end up TAKING THE BETTER PART OF TWO WHOLE MONTHS TO GET MATERIALS AND MY SON STARTED INTO HIS 10TH GRADE YEAR!! Which is Absolutely UNACCEPTABLE!! I wish I knew where to go from here. If I knew a better place to enroll him and the exact process would take a short amount of time, I'd most definitely be doing that. I'm currently researching other online schools. However, I feel like I can't trust any of these online schools now. It's just mind blowing to me this can happen. I can't imagine how long this would have taken if I had trouble with a document or two like someone in an earlier review wrote about. Or if my son's old school took the full 10 days to do the intent to enroll form. What the actual heck is going on here? All these negative experiences so far. I pray the actual school actually works and communication is on par.