Sandy B.

There are a few of these fake companies floating around. You can tell because if you look closely all of these companies are based in Asia. All the clothes cost very little and the biggest clue of all are the clothes designs they are selling. All items extremely nice in the ads. I don't know how they are doing it, but these clothes are clearly high end. No way are they going to cost 20 bucks. The pictures appear to be a rip off from Neman Marcus or something similar. Stay far, far away from all of them. As you can see from the terrible reviews if you ever get the item, and that's a big if, it will look nothing like the ad and will be of shoddy quality. Just too bad their endless ads can't be removed from just about every site you visit on the internet.

Connections Academy schools are not homeschool programs. They are all public schools that require state law attendance and the upper grades curriculum is college prep. It requires every bit as much work as a traditional school. The only difference is that work is being done at home. Teachers are all state certified, but in this setting they are facilitators. The parent is essentially the teacher and it is a full time job. Unless the student is highly motivated, and usually older, the parent can not be off at work all day hoping the child is actually doing school work. It requires a whole lot of time and energy on the parent's part. Parent and student must have a fair amount of computer and technical savvy. If not you will be frustrated, fall behind and be miserable. The same is true of your internet service. It must be high speed and reliable. If not the school will not work for you. The commercials on these schools are very misleading in the sense that there is nothing easy about these schools. Your interaction with teachers will be quite limited unless you happen to attend a field trip. Understand this is corporate run for profit education. The company is not promoting the schools out of the goodness of their hearts or out of a love of education. The schools generate huge profits and enrolling as many students as possible is the vehicle to do so. You'll have to decide if this offends your moral sensibilities or not. Bottom line is do your homework before you decide to join a Connections school. It can be a good experience or a very bad one depending on your child and family situation. Go in with eyes wide open.

I almost ordered from this company, but thankfully didn't. Something seemed fishy about the it. It was clearly not an American company and if you look at the information on shipping and returns a red flag will go up. The merchandise itself is much too inexpensive for the styles being shown on the website. I have come to believe that they are probably cheep knock offs of much more expensive clothing lines. Now that I've opened the site anywhere I go on the internet follows me with liligal ads. The clothing styles are tempting for sure, but this is not a company you want having your credit card information. Read the site entirely and then don't order. You don't want these people having your credit card information.