Remote Learning School

Easy Set up and lessons enjoyable for my children. I have 3 kids ages 14,12, and 9, attending 9th Grade, 7th Grade, and 4th Grade respectively. I very much appreciate that I only need to pay one membership fee for all kids in my household, since with other programs enrolling multiple kids can be costly, but with RemoteLearning the membership covers the entire family.
My little munchkins have been Remote Learning School students since last year during the Pandemic when public schools struggled to take off with proper remote programs. But even now, as they return to in-person school, Remote Learning School is still a must for their education. There's hundreds of lessons they can take there and many of them is stuff that is not offered at school including many second language classes musical instruments, and dance classes (all virtually, of course). My 9 yr old son is excited about learning Korean since he likes K-Pop, while my 12 year old daughter is enjoying the online ballet lessons, and my 14 year old is learning to play electric guitar. They would not have been exposed to this extra education if not for the Remote Learning School.

I'm a mom to two kids (ages 8 and 11) and we've been with RLS for two years now and are very happy. When the Pandemic started last year, in person school was cancelled and it took my school several weeks to launch with virtual learning. Luckily I knew to enroll to the Remote Learning School in time so my kids did not lose out on their studies. In fact, when virtual school begun from their school, they were ahead of the rest of the class! The RLS curriculum is far more superior than other schools.
When you register, your kids get their student ID Card and also their own school email address assigned to them. Theire achievements are recorded in their JuniorFolio which in no doubt will help them in the future when they apply to colleges. I know its early to think about college for them but every little advantage help! And the RLS platform is very flexible and lets them study based on their own schedule, there is no pressure because it teaches in a fun waym so they are actually motivated to learn. In addition to core classes like math and ELA they can also learn musical instruments, 2nd languages, and a lot more.
Overall am very happy with this school and I think every parent who cares about the future of their kids should enroll. Also with the Omicron and who knows what other variants its always good to have a backup in case there is a disruption to in person learning again. Kids can't afford to keep falling behind. I also bought a gift membership for some of my relatives who have kids I know they will appreciate it.

My main reason for choosing this online education platform for my kids is that my children get a student id card and their own professional/educational school email address. These tools are important things to have for every kid whether you are home-schooling or whethe you use the Remote Learning School as a supplement to strengthen your child's in-person education at school. My kid is already getting affluent with using e-mail to communicate. The e-mail account has parental controls so you can set those if you want, especially for the younger children. Both the student ID and the email account can also be used to get student discounds both online and local, so the membership eventually pays for itself.

I suggest registering today, before all good email addresses are taken, for example FirstnameLastname or FirstnameInitial etc if you register now you will probably get a better email address which your child can keep as long as you they are a member, also if they are a member for a year or if you got the lifetime membership, the email address is theirs forever, so it will help them for their entire school life. Even for a kid its good to have an email address with an educational extension instead of a generic g-mail or hot-mail one for example.

One of the reasons I registered my son in the Remote Learning School is that they have many good contests throughout the year. But I am giving one star because my son won 2nd place in RemoteLearningSchool's annual science fair, but I feel he should have gotten 1st place. He spent a lot of time on that project.

My son's project was titled "A Smart Device to Detect Potholes on the Road Using Machine Learning" and as I said it only got 2nd place. The first place project was titled "The Effect Of Magnetism On The Growth of Pea Plants" and it was good, but I feel my son's project was better. I mean, I think solving the issue of potholes is more practical than analyzing the effect of magnetism on pea plants. Since potholes affect us every day and projects such as my son's can actually contribute to people's way of life, while on the other hand not that many people care about pea plants.

I tried submitting an appeal, but was told that the judge's decision was final. The next competition they have is the Halloween costume contest, but my son is less interested in that since he likes science stuff better.

Overall program offers many features, many not offered by other programs and schools, so its very good value.

School email address: Each kid gets 100mb of storage. Not a lot if they send lots of videos etc but should be enough for education and communicating with relatives etc. Has parental controls.

School ID - Every child gets a school ID. This is a digital school ID but you can also print it as well as use it for discounts on software and more, both online and offline.

JuniorFolio - This is where varous achievements and certificates are stored so you can showcase their accomplishments and be proud.

Press ID - if the child decides to write for the school magazine they get a very cool press ID

Classes - there are tons of subjects. Classes are pre-recorded and can be taken by the student at any time.

Membership fees - You can choose monthly, Quarterly, Semiannual or life time. Lifetime is probably the best value. Also covers the entire family/household so you dont have to buy membership for every kid in the family which saves a lot of money.

Registration - everything is done online and through email so very conveniten

Customer service - you can ask them anything through email or through their facebook page and they usually reply very fast though sometimes during a busy school week there can be a delay in reponse

Hope this review helps!

Please do not use this site for your child's remote learning needs. It's a complete bait and switch situation. I signed up for six months for my first grader with hopes of her doing first grade and then heading into the second grade classes and within literally the first week my daughter had completed math, language, arts, and science for 1st grade. Figuring that can't be accurate, we contacted the company to ask about more classes and we were given the runaround saying they upload classes weekly. It then took them a couple more weeks to upload a few more classes for those specific subjects. At this point, my daughter had completed all of the other extracurriculars that they offer, including cooking, ASL, music, etc. she went on to complete the minimal classes that were uploaded and then back to the same problem, no classes for her to take. We have reached out over and over with either no response, or the same response, of "we will look into it". If I had known this would be the case, I absolutely would not have signed up for six months of this. I was very clear upfront, what I was looking for from a remote learning school standpoint and they said there were tons and tons of classes to choose from and lessons to learn within each class. You cannot complete all of the first grade classes within the first 2 to 3 weeks. They make it look really good but in reality there is not much content and it's quite the joke. I can't tell you how many times we have reached out to our advisor who is supposed to help us through the process only to get no response. We are now trying to get the transcripts so that we can pass them on to the county and no one will respond to our countless emails. I really cannot fathom how they have so many positive reviews unless they are fake. There has been zero support. They seem very supportive and respond to emails very quickly when you are in the decision phase of going with their program but as soon as you make the decision and pay, they disappear. I will not stop writing reviews so everyone can see the truth before they sign up with the scam of a company.

We are so happy to have started homeschooling and found this program. My kids are doing so well with the lessons here.

Misleading advertising: They advertise themselves as one of the most comprehensive online curriculums out there. In fact, not a single course offered by them could be considered complete. The French course comprises a total of 4 lessons. The Kindergarten Jr Math courses is a whopping 2 lessons. Ballet... 1 lesson. Korean... 1 lesson. Grade 8 Algebra... 1 lesson. There is NOTHING comprehensive about what they offer.
Fake reviews: The reviews scattered across the internet were written by the same handful of people. The vast majority of these "people" have only reviewed this "school". The photographs used by some of these reviewers are stocks photos. Alas, since the entire website, "viral" videos and instructor profiles also include stock photos this is unsurprising.
Lacks transparency: they have no sample lessons or trial period. The opportunity to try a sample, view a lesson or try before you buy is universal amongst educational sites. They refuse to answer questions on how they screen their instructors, if they screen their videos, etc. Additionally, the same "social media manager" runs an unemployment website (unemploymentpua) and a school review website (schoolrating.net). It's dishonest to not disclose these relationships, especially when you run the rating website that gives your school perfect reviews. The only interaction on social media for remotelearning.school is from the unemploymentpua account and a blatantly fake account with a stock photo.

They have now blocked my IP address from accessing their site due to my review. This doesn't look good for the company. If you aren't doing anything wrong, why would you block a user.

I highly recommend this school. This is my first review which I am pleased to write as my kids are learning so much.

Enrollment:

Enrollment was quick, everything was done online, I had some questions which I emailed them before enrollingand they answered within a few hours.

I registered both my children (ages 6 and 10) and within 3 days they already had their student ID and their JuniorFolio set up. JuniorFolio is like a digital portfolio that tracks their achievements.

Program:

We use the program as supplemental to our public school curriculum, though it can also be used as a full homeschool curriculum. If your child is in public school it is important you enroll in this program to help them achieve maximum potential, as parents we've seen how limited and encapsuled is the education they get from their public schools. The program at the Remote Learning School goes above and beyond their standard curriculum.

Curriculum:

RemoteLearning School has hundreds of classes for different grade lessons. In addition to all the standard classes such as math, ELA, Science, etc, it has many special interest classes such as Entrepreneurship, journalism, meteorology, photography, and more. They also have virtual physical activity classes, music, dancing, and more. So many classes that I can't even remember their names right now.

While it sounds overwhelming initially, all clasees can be done at your own pace

Other perks:

They get a student ID (which I've already used to save on software for my kids) as well as a school email address. Most other programs do not offer such benefits.

Pricing

Pricing is VERY affordable and is a good value if we look at everything this program offers. You can choose to enroll monthly. Or buy the lifetime membership (which I did)

I hope my review helps!

I was unable to register my son to the program because they said classes were full. I completed the registration online and paid the registration fee, then got the email that my son was admitted to the program, but around 10 minutes later I got an another email that classes are full and that to try again enrolling in 2 weeks. My fees were refunded automatically which is why I am giving 2 stars instead of 1 star. But I was really looking forward to having my son be part of the program because I've heard all the great things about it so it was disappointing to be turned away.
This is the email they sent me:
"Dear Parent, thank you for your interest in RemoteLearning.school's education enrichment program for kids ages 5-17. Unfortunately, due to high demand, the program is currently at capacity. We received a record number of enrollments this week, and we want our admissions department to give new members the full attention they deserve as a student, and our staff takes great care to assign each new student their curriculum, JuniorFolio, student ID, and more, as they begin their new learning journey with us.
We have therefore placed your son on the waitlist, and we currently estimate the wait time to be 2 weeks. Meanwhile, we are refunding any fees you paid during the registration process."
Like I said that's a disappointment since my son was eager to get his school email address and write for the school magazine and learn classes such as Korean and guitar, never seen him so excited about learning! But at least they refunded my money fast without me even having to ask. I will try again enrolling in 2 weeks I really hope I get my son in this program.