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I am liking MiaPrep Plus so far. This is our first year homeschooling and it’s with my 8th grader, so I never tried another program yet. I did research MANY. Most other online programs look extremely outdated, boring, or worse. I looked at Connections Academy, Florida Virtual School, Acellus Academy, Time4Learning, Power Homeschool, Florida Cyber Charter Academy, Bridgeway Academy, Whitmore School, and K12. Some of these other schools may be better for different age groups. Whitmore School looked like a close second (although I am not looking to teach all subjects completely online). Pros: 1. Updated content, more subjects, and content being added. 2. Nice videos, PDFs to fill out with the video (taking notes), and written practice questions. 3. Love you can pick the subject, days and dates of course, and take out lessons or topics you don't want your child to learn or that you would like to skip (base on their former knowledge of a subject). 4. Liked that they had American Sign Language, Music, Bible Studies, and Computer Programming as a subject. 5. Liked that the student grades, assessments/quizzes, and content is recorded and that most programs can function as stand alone, or you can take out content/add your own for certain topics within a subject. I like that the program offers this type of flexibility. 6. You can also connect your MiaPrep account with MiaPrep High School to keep progress on any subjects you have taken that will qualify towards high school. 7. The MiaPrep curriculum is COPPA complaint and MiaPrep Online School "is fully accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). It permits MOHS to award diplomas and course credits that are recognized by universities, trade schools, and careers all across the world." 8. Can give students up to 1,000 gold a day for doing their work or a number of tasks like "feed the pets" or "cleaning their room". They can use the gold in their world that they can buy and create things to sell in their story, buy things for their castle, and use on games, etc. 9. Students can have a store where they create things for others to buy and can view their business progress. Cons: 1. Big con for me was the use of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals PROPAGANDA (UN2030 17 SDG's) thrown in at random in the World Geography-9th grade Social Studies. I'm sure you could find the UN Goals in other subjects or grades. I had to look through every page of the PDFs to see if UN2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were slid into the lessons. Also, having to assign a same sex couple and gender roles to people around the world, and more UN propaganda about sustainability, urban planning, carbon credits and carbon neutral garbage. I am a marine scientist and environmental planner that does regulatory permit review and inspections for our local county government on a US island chain. I, along with other concerned citizens in our county fought HARD to have the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals be REMOVED from our County's longterm land use planning decisions, due to their focus on putting as many people as possible in SMART Cities (20 minute cities) and their goal to work in coordination with the WHO to go above our own soveign governments to exert their power on people during crisis (like how they tried during COVID19). Luckily, I can opt of out these topics, which is a PLUS. 2. Too many practice assessments. If your child is doing the PDF, remove them and just have them do the online quizzes and end of unit assessments. 3. WAY too much to print, you will spend a fortune in ink, paper, printers (that will die after printing so much), and binders to keep all the paper in. I suggest that there is an option to buy full workbooks for each class to get all PDF content at once (not a bunch of loose leaf, printed paper). 4. Science Labs. For middle school and specifically high school, it would be essential that MiaPrep Online High School have a lab kits/materials you can buy for high quality lab experiments to do with the science classes. For example, for a high school biology level lab, the topic was Mammals and the lab says: "Materials: Your Thumb; Mammals have an Opposable Thumb". That is IT for the mammal labs, what?! We could be doing a dissection of a pig, a cow/sheep eye, something! 5. No live teachers or office hours for MiaPrep but MiaPlus Online Highschool has those features.

Mia Academy is very user frienldy and engaging. My 6year old loves it. The best cirriculum thus far

I love the mixed media learning options of Miacademy. My child can do everything from online videos/lessons to handouts

Overall our experience with Miacademy was positive. There is a lot to figure out about it, but some of that could have been due to my refusal to use the tutorials or watch the videos 🤣. The curriculum was engaging enough that it kept both of my kid’s (6 & 11.) I appreciate that the curriculum is self contained, meaning it was there from start to finish, not requiring any extras for it to be successful. As we all know, trying to homeschool multiple children at once can be a challenge, so being able to have each of them log on and start working on their own while overseeing their learning and helping when needed was a HUGE WIN in my opinion. I love that the lessons are taught through the videos that are included so that I didn’t have to formulate a lesson plan. We learned a lot about each kids learning style and were able to figure out where we fit into that. I also love that math is taught in several different ways so that my kids could explore which style fits them best. Bonus points that the program is self paced. You plug in start dates and when you would like them to have the curriculum completed, put in their regular schedule of days they will be using the program (our kids went to a co-op two days a week so we didn’t do Miacademy those days) as well as any planned breaks and it assigns the work that needs to be completed each day to meet the end date. That was a really nice feature. Good options on electives, and the core curriculum seems very on par with their grade level and state requirements. Reporting on progress and grades is very comprehensive and the system safe guards are VERY helpful. Overall, we are impressed, even more so than some of the curriculums schools were using during COVID, that we plan to use Miacademy indefinitely for the foreseeable future.

User friendly interface and fantastic customer service. Wish the PDFs were better integrated/organized.

I absolutely LOVE the customer service I get at Miacademy. They are always prompt to answer any questions and resolve issues quickly. Thank you Mia!

My children love Miacademy. The only downside is if you have more than one child you have to create separate billing accounts for those children. It should just be all integrated into the parent portal, to be able to setup all children, while they still can have their own password and login. It's ridiculous that if you want to cancel or change something financially you have to do each and everyone one of them. Also, Miacademy would be really amazing if they had entry assessments (Math, Language Arts) that based off the results, would help students no matter their grade level by placing them where they are struggling while moving them forward from what they have strengths in. Other than this, Miacademy is a great platform and my kids love it.

Was ok. I ask for help to do this. Alot of questions and variables.