Connections Academy Reviews

I would not recommend this school to anyone. Not only is the workload overwhelming, but it also feels like the teachers are more focused on failing students than helping them succeed. There seems to be a lack of care or concern for whether a child actually excels. You would expect teachers to want their students to grow and achieve, but instead, it often feels like they are indifferent and unwilling to provide the support needed. At times, it even comes across as if they are okay with students falling behind rather than helping them improve.

When my daughter started with FCA in 7th grade, it was fine. Not perfect, but good for us. I had control of her scheduler, her live lessons were consistent and the workload was rigorous but reasonable. Now she's in 9th grade, and we are both miserable. They've taken away the ability for parents to run the scheduler, so she's always stressing about overdue lessons even though they aren't actually.

Their teachers a great and I'm not sure what these people are talking about with the work load being too high? My kids generally finish a full day's work in 1 to 3 hours and they're pretty spread out in grade. My issue is with the curriculum. The kids are reading stories that glorify Aztecs' culture and making masks in art for their gods, reading stories in English class full of Spanish words (which is terrible for a 1st grader who is trying to learnhow to read English), and the Math resembles remedial Math from the 90s. The live lessons are only like 15 minutes long and there's only 1 to 2 a day 4 days a week.

If I could give 0 stars I would, my child’s HR Advisor never not once communicated with me, I attempted several times to ask questions through email, text and phone calls and was ignored the whole 6 months my child was enrolled. When I finally unenrolled her was the only time she even emailed back with “oh I can help you with that” for her to not even help me still. I have sent 5 emails this week and last week so I can get her grades so she can start school, of course they have gone ignored. Call customer service to get another number to call and no one answered. Ridiculous that I have to jump through hoops to talk to my child’s teacher or get grades so she can start school.

If I could give this place 0 stars I would. Please do not enroll with this place. The enrollment process is complete trash. I was enrolling both of my children. I used the same documents for both of my kids. They accepted my son and rejected my daughter. I uploaded proof of residency documents at least 4 or 5 times each time, they were still rejected. I just said forget. All of you that have similar experiences or worst experience, reach out to the Department of Education. Do not let them get away with this.

School is not fit for children with IEPs. The workload is so heavy we almost always get behind because I work from home, I work from 9-5:30. I have to be her teacher for what she does not learn in class or cannot do so I actually work from 9 to 11 and weekends trying to help her. They say it's small group but it is not. It does not accommodate and they do not know their students' abilities.

Hello, I'm currently a 10th grader in Connections Academy, and it's not great. While I enjoy the flexibility and whatnot, everything is overwhelming. The workload is too heavy and you do not get the help you would get in brick-and-mortar schools. Live Lessons could be helpful; though I struggle with focusing because of lack of accommodating for such. along with this, the school is extremely lonely. People do not come off clearly through text; and the way they seem on the internet may be different from how they are in real life, causing a bit of a barrier to know who you could get along with, since you cant read text in exactly the way they are typing. With this, you hardly get any real life social interaction besides the repetitive field trips that are not always possible to go to because of distance, lack of time, no people to take you because they are working, etcetera.

Deeply frustrated with the enrollment experience I had with Connections Academy. This has truly been the worst enrollment process I have ever encountered. Despite submitting official documents directly from my children’s doctor’s office and their previous school, none of them were accepted. The onboarding process was excessively long and unnecessarily complicated, and I was surprised to learn that Connections Academy expected me, the parent, to handle the submission of all school and immunization records rather than requesting them directly from the previous school, as is standard practice elsewhere.

The principal is a poor communicator and this trickles down to staff. Synchronous classes are randomly changed and their solution to everything is to give more work and communicate this through vague emails.

Y'all single out the ** students. It is horrible to know that the principal withdraw my son without my permission. No help from the teacher. She gave my son bad grades for no reason. They never contacted me.