If I could, I'd rate this less than one star. It doesn't even deserve to be called a school. As a former student, I can say that everything feels like a prison internment camp.
The cafeteria literally serves slop that consists of cheese, frozen onions, and a slab of gluten. I'm not joking, there was a meal that was sliced veggi meat, sour cream, mushroom soup, then you sprinkle leftover tatertots and burnt cheese on top.
Then let's move onto the staff. They all love to be super cryptic and hand out punishments for next to nothing. Wanna make an inside joke about a friend across the room? How about you work for free for 5 hours while you could be cleaning your room.
That's another thing. If you don't have everything tidy and there's a single package of Raman on the floor, you've got no privileges for the next week. And by privileges I mean you can use a computer from 2002 with 6 gigs of ram. Oh, and they screenshot your screen every 30 seconds just to make sure you can't have anything nice.
A lot of the students are super depressed and some even suicidal. I had friends that would punch walls so that they could actually feel something.
The dorms are basically crumbling as you walk through them. They're exact copies of each other, except the girls dorm has a layer of paint covering the deteriorating frame. Let's use an example. How about we imagine a wooden milk crate from the 40's. We're not in the 40's, the crate is exactly as it would be if you left it in an attic for 80 years. Now we take some fishing line and a couple copper pennies. Then drop a few strips of mildew filled carpet. That's a step up from the dorm.
Now we move on to their so called family aspect of the school. All the teachers say that the school is like a family and everyone are friends. But you've got the rich, loud what are now seniors that clog the halls with their incessant rumors and gossip about who said what to the friend of a friend of a cousin of a neighbor of a pool cleaner of an uncle. That's the extent of these fables. Maybe 4% of the things you hear about another student are primary or even secondary sources. If that's not a family I don't know what it is.
The classes are long and monotonous, I don't remember a single thing I learned from those. If anything I was hindered when I went to a normal charter school. The teachers, I hate to say it, but they are either so old that my parents had them as teachers, or they are so new that they look younger than some of the seniors. Maybe 2 of them actually know how to run a good classroom, and even that's a stretch.
And they've got this weird "day one day two" system. Basically, they have half of your classes on one day, and the rest on the other. Then you work the rest of the day. Why do they have students work you may ask? It's because they have hardly any staff to clean up the mess, so they make the students do it for less than minimum wage in some cases.
Oh well that's nice, it teaches the kids work ethic and prepares them for life ahead.
Malarkey!
These "work situations" teach you next to nothing. You know what I learned? I learned that if a supervisor does something rash and explosive, and you say one word back about it, you're the problem. Did you get the wrong type of egg out of the refrigerator? How about you stay after work for an extra 10 minutes and get to class late without an excuse. And that's first time offense.
Oh well at least you get payed.
That's a big nope too.
All the money immediately goes into your account so you can pay off your $18,000 school bill for the year. You don't even get certification out of it, unless you go to an Adventist college!!
I had a close friend last year who was forced to work, even though she had her bill completely paid off. And as far as I know, she never saw any of the money she worked for.
TL:DR
The school doesn't last 5 years with their current enrollment and I'd like to see the church try to bail them out like everyone says they can.
My advice for anyone thinking about this school, you're better off sending them to Scotland and making them find the Loch Ness monster, then having it give them its vast knowledge of the universe.
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