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    Reviewed April 16, 2025

    I have had my kids in TNCA and GACA. I like the school and appreciate this program. However I had unsatisfying experiences with both schools, with more of issues being with TNCA. When my daughter was in 11th grade she took AP Biology the teacher was hardly there, canceled class without notifying students and was very unprofessional there was nothing we could do about that but just let it be. Then we later would have to transfer as we moved to GA.

    We contacted the school when moving and the administrative staff told us this would be our choice to decide on what to do whether stay or transfer. It was the middle of the year so we continued, but due to distance could not attend testing. It was at that time I contacted the school again, when all of the sudden they pretended like they were not aware that we had moved, and their rude administrator contacted us yelling in my phone and authoritative and he sounded like he didn’t care. He subsequently withdrew my kids with two weeks of school left In the year, and caused the most emotionally draining credit transfer ordeal for us. These people refused to give my daughter her credits knowing very dumb well that she was going into senior year. We had have her tested at GACA for her to get credit for classes that she took. In all I think we were targeted and they was an agenda behind it all.

    My other issues were my first grader was always not allowed in class by her teacher who was always busy and gone, my do they stay gone but I bet they still getting paid. All I care for is my kid learning I really don’t care if they teacher was gone but at least it would be nice if they brought a substitute teacher. That whole experience left me upset until this day. Then we had the technical problems, children being placed on alarm for no reason. They had me scolding my child thinking she is doing something wrong when it was their fault, again they caused problems for my household. No staff professionally addressed this.

    Then we got to GACA and my was the work overwhelming. They overworked my kid and the agenda continued, and we were given the run around for my kid to get her credits validated it was so ridiculous. Then came the alarms for no reason, and more drama, they didn’t care it was like they got a kick out of stressing the families out. Then came the lack of teaching CRT, and false alarms on student accounts have continued, issuing of grades for benchmarks and yet it is an ungraded assessment, not allowing children into live lessons and issuing temporary zeros even if you are not failing. To harassing us with emails about missing assessments which were already completed. Giving zeros on assignments for no reason. And more of not allowing my kid into social studies live lessons, giving her zero for work that’s completed, and teacher will sit there unbothered.

    Again I feel targeted and I think the last school did this, and we have continued to experience the drama. My daughter likes her teachers but there is one who I feel intentionally is passively aggressive towards us I don’t know why. Our only guess maybe because we are an ethnic family, they like to give us more of a run around. School should be fun, stress free and teachers should the less dramatic people who cheer our kids on. They should not be allowed to be part of agendas and targeting people who have nothing to do with their agenda. I really hope this will be read and addressed.

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    Response from Connections Academy

    Hi Faith. Thank you for your feedback, and I'm sorry to hear about the experience you had at two of our schools. I'd love to look into this further, but I don't have enough information to locate your accounts. Can you email us at community@connectionsacademy.com with your students' names? Thank you. ~Bri

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    Reviewed April 7, 2025

    They are giving my kid way too many tests, like every week. If I go into my child's weekly work board thing, there's a 90% chance I will see a test, and I also find it annoying as a parent, same with my child, who finds it annoying. I do not recommend this school unless you like being rushed with tests

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    Response from Connections Academy

    Hi! I'm sorry your child has more tests assigned than you'd like. I'd be happy to connect you with an administrator to address your concerns. Please email us at community@connectionsacademy.com with your and your student's name so we can locate your account and have someone follow up. ~Bri

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      Punctuality & Speed

      Reviewed March 20, 2025

      My daughter is three weeks late until the second semester and she got overwhelmed with work and I think the counselor miss ** doesn’t need to be working there and the teachers are not communicating with the students and I think 10 assignments a day is a little bit ridiculous.

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      Response from Connections Academy

      Hi Val. I'm sorry you're not having a good experience. I'd be happy to connect you with someone to address your concerns. I'm unable to locate your account by your name listed. Please email us at community@connectionsacademy.com so we can have someone follow up with you. ~Bri

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      Reviewed March 14, 2025

      I attended this school for 2 years. I am until next year for my sophomore year, I convinced my parents to enroll me because it was supposed to be a self paced school, not true. The school is good for Reading but that's it, the Math is only hard because they make it harder than it is supposed to be, like the Math assignments for example it takes 2-3 hours to complete a Math assignment most of the time. It was stated that each assignment takes 1h max. It is not true, all the things they say are not true. The funny thing is that even if you try your hardest in Math for 2-3 hours you don't even understand half of it. The first page of the lesson shows a YouTube video and it looks easy but once you are about to finish they shove things in the last page without any explanation on how that equation works.

      They also have really bad teachers, the teachers can barely teach, I had 2 good teachers the rest were pretty much bad. This one teacher made my grade go down cause of her fault! She didn't respond to my email for 2 months on work that needed to be redone. GPA ruined! The Math is the worst. It takes so long and sometimes I have to cheat because I already spent 3 hours on the same assignment. It is actually really bad. The LiveLessons is a joke, 1 hour of pure nothingness. No learning. It's all things you could learn in 5 minutes. Language lessons are a waste of time. They expect you to speak fluent Spanish. After 2 weeks of enrolling I don't even speak Spanish either so that was a big red flag on this school too!

      Overall this school ruins many lives, it is way harder teachers do not help at all and they also delete reviews on other websites. It's a all look good scheme. Don't fall or it please keep your child out of this school if you can. I guarantee you all the students cheat, I did for a while until it was high school. Your child will cheat if they are under 13, it's a make good look scheme, every kid doing 2-3h of work is cheating because all the assignments take 6-8 hours sometimes. I work at night now!

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      Response from Connections Academy

      Hi Viperstrike. Thank you for your feedback. We strive to provide a high-quality education, and many families find our program aligns with their needs. We're sorry to hear about your experience, as it is not reflective of the experience we hope to provide our students. Academic integrity is a top priority, and we continuously work to improve it and our courses. I’ll pass your feedback along to help us better support students. Please feel free to reach out for further discussion. ~Bri

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      Reviewed Jan. 16, 2025

      This is a horrible online school. My son was discriminated and kicked out of the school and withdrawn without my consent because of his disability. They told me the school was not appropriate for my son and told me to look for another school options. This need to be shut down and need to be some loud suits and involved because they are breaking all types of rules. They overwork it with all this unnecessary schoolwork. It’s a lot of discrimination/racism going on with the school.

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      Response from Connections Academy

      Hi Gamese. Thank you for sharing your concerns. We take all reports of discrimination very seriously. Before the withdrawal was finalized, our Special Education team attempted to reach out to you, but their attempts were unsuccessful. We will forward your concerns to our administrators, but feel free to email us at community@connectionsacademy.com if you have additional information to share. ~Bri

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      Reviewed Jan. 14, 2025

      Connections is not a good school. While they claim they are flexible and understanding, DO NOT DARE get behind on your work because they will HOUND you and threaten truancy VERY QUICK! My kids got behind, while yes significantly, I was just diagnosed with cancer and while they SEEMED understanding, would NOT let my boys catch up because they were “so behind”. While they were only talking about my one child, they unknowingly unenrolled my younger child, who looked forward to a speech class every Thursday WITHOUT warning. I called Connections and talked to a representative online who was able to look at all of the email and did confirm that they did NOT mention my other child EVER. I recommend Astravo.org they have FLEXIBLE. Ruth ** and Ms. ** should be replaced.

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      Response from Connections Academy

      Hi T, I'm so sorry about what your family has been going through. I'm unable to find your account by the name listed, but I'd be happy to take a look and see if there's anything we can do if you want to email us. You can reach us at community@connectionsacademy.com. ~Bri

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      Reviewed Dec. 3, 2024

      Connections Academy does not make learning easy for students. Besides being online and allowing time to make-up work, the material requires too much. Most assignments have 30 pages for children to read each. With all this technology, videos should be done for these lessons. Not in addition to. I am in undergrad and I feel like my children have more reading than I do. It’s crazy. Great concept but poor execution. I am disappointed to say the least. Traditional school was not this intense. Teachers had 1 hour and assigned reading material/homework after class if any. I have been here 3 years and will look for other options. Technology is too advanced for options to be so poor.

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      Response from Connections Academy

      Hi Christen. Thank you for the feedback. We're sorry you're not having a good experience. I'd love to connect you with an administrator to discuss your concerns. Please email us at community@connectionsacademy.com so that we can connect you. ~Bri

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      Reviewed Nov. 4, 2024

      We chose Connections Academy for our Kindergartener because we were worried about him being mistreated in a brick and mortar school (he has severe adhd and possibly mild asd). At first it seemed like such an ideal compromise between public school and homeschool, but I have quickly realized that this is not a good fit for our family. I have a 5 year old, 3 year old and 11 month old, and when I tell you it is near impossible to be my son's learning coach and work one-on-one with him for a minimum of maybe 5 hours a day WITH a 3 year old and baby needing my attention constantly, I seriously mean it! It causes so much stress. My son loves the routine and "checklist" mentality of the work, but as a mom to 3 littles I cannot do this on my own...

      I personally think the curriculum is a bit much, as if high-academia Harvard professors without any kids of their own wrote this stuff "for children". It is pretty dry and repetitive, and takes way too long to complete most days. So my husband and I are planning on pulling our son during winter break and going back to homechool for now, that way I can control better how much time we spend and what we learn and incorporate my other kids into our learning as well. Altogether I don't think I would recommend this kind of learning for big families with lots of small children. However this might work well for families with one child and a parent who can dedicate the majority of their day to teaching that child as if they were still in public school (6 hours a day, 5 days a week).

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      Response from Connections Academy

      Hi Ashley. Thank you for your honest feedback. We understand it may not be the easiest, but we do have many successful families with small children in the home. I believe your concerns about the Learning Coach's responsibilities and curriculum would be best addressed with an administrator. Please email us at community@connectionsacademy.com so we can connect you with someone. ~Bri

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      Reviewed Sept. 24, 2024

      My daughter went to Connections Academy from Kindergarten through the 4th grade. Her lost grade was 1 C, all the rest were A's and B's. We had a couple of family emergencies which caused us to turn in some assignments late. We started getting a paper trail telling me she had more assignments late that what she really had. Then we got into an accident and fell back a little but the assignments always got caught up and she always passed her test.

      The teacher even lied about her reading test scores. So at the end of 4th grade they told me this school was a good fit for my daughter and that she could finish the school year but she can't return. I've paid so much money to this school. It wasn't right to dismiss her like that. I was always curious with her teachers even when they lied on her test results. I say plenty of students turn in some of their assignments the day before the deadline on assignments that were date stamped in our group discussions. Way later than my daughter's were turned in. It's just not right....

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      Reviewed Sept. 18, 2024

      Choose a better school because the learning coach doing more work than the teacher who getting paid to teach our kids. They on live for about a hour so what can you really be teaching in a hour. They have 5 homework assignments every day. All you hear it's a fast paced school but homeschool should be at the kids pace. I have a kindergarten and 4 grader. They expect me to print out work for my kindergarten then take a pic and send it in. Like really. So if you not able to get the library to print it out it put your child behind then on top that I have to pay for to print it out. Will let my kids finish the semester out and I rather home school myself

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      Response from Connections Academy

      Hi Johnnesha. I'm sorry we're not meeting your expectations. Our program is designed to be more independent, combining asynchronous learning and synchronous LiveLesson sessions to provide a unique blend of independent learning and peer collaboration. At Missouri Connections Academy, the school day is 7 hours with a flexible schedule, allowing students to complete assignments 24/7. If you'd like to connect with an admin to discuss your concerns, email us at community@connectionsacademy.com. ~Bri

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      Connections Academy author review by ConsumerAffairs Research Team

      Connections Academy is a virtual education organization that provides a free public online school for grades K-12, as well as a tuition-based online private school. Connections Academy is a division of Connections Education LLC.

      • In-person and online informational events: Connections Academy offers both online and in-person events for prospective students and their families to have their questions answered.

      • Personalized Performance Learning: Connections Academy provides a personalized educational experience using its Personalized Performance Learning approach. The school begins by reviewing the student’s background and learning style. It then conducts periodical testing to track progress over time and uses assessments to identify a student’s core strengths and weaknesses.

      • Career technical education: This program is designed for students — especially high school students — who would like to gain more targeted education towards a career in many fields; including, accounting, education, programming and business.

      • Diverse course options: Connections Academy can meet the needs of a diverse range of students with traditional courses, Honors and AP courses, and the ability to take college and NCAA approved courses while in high school.

      • Student experience catalog: Through a wide variety of extracurricular activities, Connections Academy provides one of the most advanced socialization programs in the online school industry.

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      Connections Academy Company Information

      Company Name:
      Connections Academy
      Year Founded:
      2001
      Address:
      1001 Fleet Street, 5th Floor
      City:
      Baltimore
      State/Province:
      MD
      Postal Code:
      21202
      Country:
      United States
      Website:
      www.connectionsacademy.com