Myrtle Grove Junction

I have been sitting on this review for over a year now. I didn’t want to write a review in anger, so I waited. Even after all this time, I feel it is important to share how mgcs administration treated my family, if only to spare somebody else from sharing the same experience in the future. My child attended pre k 3s and had a wonderful year. His teacher was truly magical and to this day I think she is wonderful. He was the youngest in his class, so I decided to have him repeat 3s again the next year when we were invited to re-enroll. During the year he attended I received no noteworthy feedback about his behavior, I was not called to any parent/teacher conferences, and he never bit anyone (I mention this because it’s their only 3 strikes and you’re out rule). The only “feedback” I ever received was that they recommend him be evaluated for speech therapy, which he was already doing and I told them so. Over the next summer I had my son evaluated for autism due to things that didn’t seem to be affecting school. Out of respect and keeping everyone on the same page I shared the diagnosis with the school. They asked me to come in for a meeting to “put supports in place for him to have a great year.” I went to this meeting without my husband thinking it was just a supports meeting, and was blindsided by them kicking him out with less than a month before school was supposed to start due to “concerns” from last year. When pressed by me, and later my husband, about what concerns they spoke of, they could not or would not tell us. This very much leads us to believe that they massively overreacted and removed him from a place of ableism and discrimination. If there were truly “concerns” we would have been hearing about this during the year or they could have at least told us what they were when they kicked him out. As a multi generation Mgcs family we are hurt and disgusted. The way they handled this situation was slimy and not at all Christian. I would never ever recommend Mgcs to anyone again, but I still am trying my best to forgive them. I pray that in the future no family will feel the hurt and rejection they inflicted upon me so needlessly at the beginning of my motherhood journey. Do better Mgcs.

Cape Fear Academy has been the best decision we could have made for our children. We have 3 kids there currently and they are eager and happy to go to school everyday. We love that the smaller classrooms (of about 16) each have a full time teacher and full time teacher’s assistant- along with a reading specialist that floats between the 3 classes. The big buddy/little buddy system has been our favorite. Each year two students of different grades are paired together and they spend time working on things together in the classroom. Some years your kid is the little buddy and sometimes the big one which they love. It has helped connect the full school from LE1 (3s preschool) all the way to high school. Also there are opportunities throughout the year for your child to try an “ACE” activity after school.. everything from piano, tennis, martial arts, to leather making! We can’t wait to see the new buildings and athletic fields being added during the amazing renovation taking place. We are so happy to be apart of this CFA community.