Crystal B.

When we first started this Academy I absolutely loved it, I recommend it to everybody especially people who have children like mine that are deeply sensitive and very easily bullied. All of that changed after our second year. They seem to have gone through some changes in terms of administration and things like that you know what they say about attitude reflecting leadership, but the teachers just got ruder and very judgmental. Upon the first conversation with my daughter's 4th grade teacher, she asked me if I was a single parent I said yes and she referred to me as a "red flag" for my daughter and her educational future. The reason I was a "red flag" was because I'm not in a co-parenting situation which translates to me as complete judgement of who you perceive a single parent to be. I don't think I need to tell you what a serious problem that really is. This is not the 1950s where we stay-at-home and pop out babies like a factory. I am not gonna just dump my child in the public school system where she was getting beaten up to appease miss high-and-mighty. We have done the best we can but we have fallen behind because it seems like no matter how much time you put aside and how much work you do they just bombard you with all of these tests and the project's God forbid it takes you longer than A-day to work on the projects all of a sudden you are behind by like 30 assignments. I need you guys to do better with that It is absurd to go from one assignment being behind to like 30 because you cannot move forward unless you finish that stupid project. Don't even get me started on the live lessons and calling certain children out and being very blatant on your favorites. We have a kid who is very rude to the other students and this teacher's favoritism toward this young man has me questioning if she knows him personally... As far as judgement goes just when I thought this woman couldn't possibly be more horrifying, in a casual conversation with my child she asked about if we had any pets or what she likes to do for fun my daughter said "we have 7 cats." Listen, I am a veterinary technician sometimes we adopt lol this woman then proceeded to make insinuations that our house must be filthy and unlivable with animals like that. You could literally eat a pancake off of my floor I am almost militant in the cleanliness of my home and I don't appreciate that but again it must go with the whole she's a single parent therefore she's a pig. The computer they sent me was not working the microphone was not working properly. She made a point of singling my daughter out repeatedly meanwhile there were other kids whose microphones want working and she didn't say anything. She then started calling and threatening that my daughter would fail and be removed from the Academy. Exactly what kind of spell am I supposed to be conjuring to fix a broken computer? She said there needs to be contact between me and your daughter OK, well if you can manage to send a threatening email and voicemail surely you can manage a phone call to the child until we straighten this out. Just a horrific experience and it has me questioning whether or not we want to return which makes me sad. My child went from being excited to start lessons and meet other kids to not even wanting the wake up for her lessons and have any interaction with this woman for fear that she would be humiliated and put into tears. I thought bullying was something we were trying to get away from not walk into. Must be nice to sit on a holier than now perch and make children feel bad about themselves. Recently my brother was killed in a motorcycle accident, I messaged the teacher and let her know we would not be able to attend the live lesson as we were on a flight to Florida for the funeral. It was implied that I may need to furnish proof... Well it takes a bit to get a death certificate were you wanting a photo of his corpse? I just couldn't possibly be more appalled. I don't want to hold it against the school but man this year was bad cannot wait for to be over.