K12

Part of the agreement was to allow us to continue having access to unused licenses for up to 3 years. The superintendent of the school district requested 5 licenses for the same terms because she knew 10 licenses were just not necessary at the time. Don agreed to change the contract, but never informed us this could change the terms, he just said he would adjust the numbers.

Unfortunately, we never received a contract stating the 2-3 year term was ever approved or going to be used. The first bid for 10 licenses showed an expiration after only one year, and a verbal commitment to possibly change the terms to reflect our 2-3 year agreement. There was no intent to ever give us access to the unused licenses. The contract for 5 and 10 licenses were identical other than the total amount. We assumed everything was the same we verbally agreed upon and signed the contract.

I was contacted recently about renewing the contract with K12.com because we ended up using only one license. When I responded stating we had 2 or 3 years to use them, Don said he explicitly informed us that we wouldn't get those benefits by dropping from 10 to 5 licenses. He even attempted to attach email correspondence stating he had this in writing, but the email he provided said nothing other than he would verbally try to write in the 2-3 year terms for 10 licenses. We were never informed that dropping from 10 to 5 licenses would not allow us to extend time to use the licenses. The curriculum itself is ok. It's not the most organized or well-written. I would say it's equivalent to the Agilix platform with a few better options. The elementary student that used their program did not do well on the year-end state tests, so the curriculum itself is nothing close to the equivalent of in-person teaching.

Which begs me the question what is the point of the teachers? They do nothing but flood your child daily plan with slideshows. You are better off just homeschooling your child yourself because that’s exactly what you are doing anyways. K12 are just a 3rd party there to dictate irrelevant rules & procedures. It’s towards the end of the school year and all of the school resources boxes that were sent by K12 at the beginning of year was rarely used besides a few books.

The teacher Mrs ** was great. Nothing wrong with what she was doing. But again it's only a first grade class, what could go wrong. All I have to say is the corporate office is a joke as well as they're based in Virginia and never return calls. The front desk people called the Simi Valley cops on me cause they misunderstood what I was saying and completely went off the rails and tried to file a false police report on me. Thank God the officer knew what this was really about. I was asking for help and no one would help. They'd rather let you fail and then call the cops for no reason. Still waiting on the principal to call and don't think that'll happen either. Just please don't waste your or your kid's time in this place. I'll take my daughter right back to the same school that she was getting choked out at than deal with k12 online

Pro's: At home learning allows you to view your child's learning environment and assist with learning throughout the day.

5. Your child might need therapy for feeling like a failure.

Personal experience: We originally enrolled our for a number of reasons. Our thinking was we could be more informed of his learning environment. Issues like bullying, lockdowns from shootings, inattentive teachers, lack of accommodation for his special needs, and a way for him to attend school despite my disability and inability to take and pick him up from it. However, K12's lack of accommodation for special needs, enthusiasm at leaving children behind, and ignorance when it comes to communication both with the parents/students and amongst themselves have left me as a mother absolutely reeling with anxiety and stress. Will today be the day he's unenrolled unexpectedly?? Because he's failing and can't keep up? The courses are rigorous, unnecessarily complicated, excessively overloading, and don't meet a special ed students needs.

For the first half of the year we waited 5 months for SPED to contact us to review our paperwork from previous years. They never did and our son was unenrolled for failing, they claimed he had missed too many days when he had only missed 2. This left my 8 year old son feeling and I quote, "like a failure and an idiot". He was absolutely devastated, depressed and defeated. Trying to resolve and correct the issue through support led to nothing but a guy repeating a pre typed script on how the K12 system worked. My son had absolutely no reason at all to go through what he went through and I was livid. I had to re-enroll him back into K12 with it being so late in the year but next school year I'm hoping he'll be back in physical school which absolutely breaks me because of the lack of safety in our ever changing world.

My son did not deserve this treatment and I'm sure hundreds if not thousands of other students are suffering through equal issues involving K12. Conclusion?: I would absolutely advise caring parents especially those of SPED children to steer clear of this online curriculum. Our relationship is so strained and I'm finding it so much harder to fix the mess this school has done to both his education and his mental health.