Connections Academy Reviews

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.

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

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.

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.

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 My son was discriminated and kicked out of the school and withdrawn without my consent because of his disability.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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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