Okolona

I would not recommend this school to anybody, especially when there are better private school options and better public school options in the area.There are a few really wonderful teachers that care a lot about their students, but all the cons outweigh the pros of those specific teachers.The classes are so small that they combine grades and don’t really have a great curriculum for distinguishing course materials across various grades. The “high school” is maybe one or two students, so you are better off buying a homeschooling online curriculum + tutors/community activities if you don’t want your child in the local public schools.It seems like there are two main types of students, those that parents put them in this school because they believed they’d get more out of a private education than public. Generally most of those kids were fine, and if it had been all children like that it wouldn’t have been as much of an issue. Then there were those students that had been kicked out of other schooling options due to problematic behavior and then brought that behavior and harmful attitudes to the cohorts of children. The school didn’t seem to be able to say no to these students because they were desperate for enrollment, at the detriment of the students without behavioral issues.The class sizes were so small students had no opportunity to avoid bullies or people that were harassing others, and because the school doesn’t adequately deal with them they are just stuck in a pretty bad environment during crucial formative years.There were many instances where the female students were held accountable and “gotten onto” when the male students were acting inappropriately, setting a harmful double standard of expectations for girls and boys. There was very much more grace given to boys and behavior that was overlooked when it absolutely shouldn’t have been, and it took far to long for administration to take reasonable action when male students were acting inappropriately.I think this school could be great if they had stricter enrollment criteria and more fair, less gender-biased expectations across the students.