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    This is a letter that I sent to the school because my daughter wasn't learning or receiving the type of education I was told she would

    So, like most people, I didn't want to send my daughter to public school because of COVID-19. This was the seconds school that I enrolled my child into. I was told that there was a lot of face time between my child and her teacher(s). Turns out, she's in the computer for 1 maybe 2 hours a day. Going through only 2 subjects. I was overwhelmed! My child wasn't learning anything. She was way behind and I decide rather than to wait any longer that it was time to enroll into in person classes. She's doing much better now; however, I sent in a refund request to them 12/2021 and just heard back from them 3/2022 and that was after I had to call them again. They say she was there more than 30 days so I can't get my money back, but their description of their services never included that I had to do more teaching than the actual teachers. I would never recommend this school service to anyone!

    Happy day: study materials from K12 have been delivered :)

    My review is for the quality of K12 curriculum, specifically - independent study courses. My 11 y/o twins are finishing 7th grade now with Inspire Charter, using K12's 8th grade online courses. We have been lucky to learn with K12 since kindergarten. I believe it is thanks to K12 my kids love learning, are independent learners and thinkers, excellent students who score as top 1%, pass advanced, or max on state required standardized tests, as well as are more mature and better socialized than most of their peers by age. I am especially pleased how comprehensive K12's courses in math, science, history are, even in elementary school. As a linguist, I must assure you that K12 language arts courses are superior to all currently available in the U.S. curricula. We are a military family. Every time we moved, we enrolled our kids in a local highly ranked public or private school first, yet every time saw how behind, academically and socially, our kids' peers in regular schools were; hence, every time we ended up switching back to either a K12 affiliated school (Virginia Virtual Academy, California Virtual Academy, Washington Virtual Academy, Inspire Charter School of CA, etc.) or, if this option was not available, we simply bought the independent study courses directly from K12, paying for them ourselves. All these K12 schools differed in their approaches depending on state requirements, school district policies, and other bureaucracies; yet, our positive experiences and opportunities with Virginia Virtual Academy (K12's public school option in VA) and Inspire Charter of CA (not affiliated with K12 but gives you funding to purchase K12 curriculum of your choice) outweigh by far anything any of the best highly ranked local brick-and-mortar schools or "free-range" homeschooling could possibly offer. My kids absolutely love K12. I am grateful to the company for putting together quality independent study courses and for the continuity they offered to us as a military family despite of all the moves we had to endure following my husband's demanding career. I do understand where some of the negative feedback comes from in the reviews below, yet to me, those are minor bureaucratic issues that can be fixed easily. Most of the time, if you look into it, the problem lies not with K12 but with the local school districts. Teachers differ from school to school, teachers' levels of experience and professionalism differ, people make mistakes. The reality is whether you are a homeschooler or simply want your child to have access to quality comprehensive curriculum to supplement your brick-and-mortar education gaps, K12 is there for you. It offers one of the best (if simply not the best) curricula available in this country today. It has been there for my twins for sure. Thank you, K12 team, as well as every teacher who has supported and still is supporting us in this learning journey.

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