Ignite Christian Academy (previously Alpha Omega Academy) Critiques
I not too long ago began homeschooling and I selected this as a result of I believed it could present a Christ-centered schooling. I’ve solely been enrolled within the Ignitia curriculum for about 5 months and I already remorse it. I ought to’ve adopted my intuition once I could not discover any opinions for this college and I believed perhaps it wasn’t a preferred possibility. I now understand why. It is a sorry excuse for a college.
Academically, the programs are actually missing. I can not imagine I am saying this, however I obtained a greater schooling in public college. The teachings seem to have been written by somebody who is not educated within the discipline, and are very sloppily constructed and uninteresting. I am an honor pupil and I my motivation shortly dropped once I enrolled on this college. I used to be in unbelief at how easy and primary the lesson construction was. For instance, I requested for assist from a number of individuals relating to a math lesson, and every particular person agreed that the lesson was poorly constructed and the “geometry” lesson had nothing to do with geometry. Additionally, should you plan on going to varsity, do not enroll on this college as a result of it solely gives two years of language, which faculties typically frown upon.
Should you do not perceive one thing,(which is sure to occur as a result of the teachings are horrible) you’ll be able to’t depend on tutorial assist. The college boasts about its tutorial assist and the way academics are all the time out there however my expertise proves in any other case. Lots of the academics are uneducated within the discipline you are inquiring about and should you ask a query about one thing you do not perceive they usually most certainly do not perceive it both, they’ll deal with you in a really impolite and condescending method, as should you’re a 5 12 months previous, and by no means really reply your query. I used to be in unbelief on the manner I used to be handled by one instructor and googled her title solely to search out her LinkedIn web page during which she reveals she is working 5 JOBS without delay. 5. This could be unacceptable in a daily college, nevertheless it helps me perceive why she so unhelpful, most certainly as a result of did not even care about her instructing job.
What’s worse, is the “dialog assessments.” Dialog assessments are necessary on-line conferences with a random instructor 5 TIMES A MONTH (and generally extra) to debate your “unit progress” (regardless that the academics are uneducated within the discipline and unhelpful anyway.) These conferences normally don’t have anything to do with the unit you are learning and if it does, its not useful in any respect and solely serves to confuse you.
One other downside is the quantity of initiatives given. I imagine it’s useful for classes to problem the coed, however these initiatives aren’t difficult, solely busywork. It appears as if when the curriculum was being constructed, the creators thought to themselves “Let’s assign as many senseless initiatives and essays as potential to make is appear as if this curriculum is rigorous.” There’s a new venture assigned each week, IN EVERY SUBJECT. So in the course of the week, I am pressured to finish about 7 initiatives. The quantity of initiatives is overwhelming and made me DREAD beginning college each morning, which no pupil ought to.
Faculty ought to be a pleasant surroundings during which the academics are working to assist the coed study issues which can assist the coed get forward in life. Alpha Omega Academy isn’t that. If something, it’s a joke, and I would like my a refund. Sadly, it’s nonrefundable and I should wait till subsequent 12 months to modify colleges. Save your self 3000 {dollars} and DON’T enroll your youngster on this college.
