Wide Horizons Ranch

After speaking with many families that have left we have all discovered our children are grossly behind in math and language arts. 1 to 3 years behind in math with large gaps of information never taught or barley covered. The school has a great community feel and they do great with preschool to abpit 1st grade. After that it seems key education is missing. The state scores speak for themselves. In 5 years they are on their 5th principal. Progress reports given to parents do not accurately show really where your student is. Discipline is lacking in this school. There are some students that are out of control and set a tone for the whole class of distraction, tension, and often yelling. There are no real soultions to these problems and it continues year after year. The small community of the school is great, all the hands on learning for preschool and up is great. However they haven't quit figured out how to tie it all together so these students can do basic math on paper, count money, tell time, figure out a division and multiplication problem apart from memorizing some math facts. I had high hopes and stuck with the school , we along with many others will not be returning. Now we are playing major catch up to get our children to where they should be.

I found this school to be not as they represented themselves to me. For example, the house parents were not properly trained, they had a high degree of turnover and at times it appeared that they would employ as house parents any "warm body" off the street. Their methods of discipline were questionable to me. I found them to be based on emotional degradation as well as placing children in potentially dangerous situations, such as being exposed to extreme temperature without proper protection or exposed to physical harm. One of many such examples is when my son was taken for a long walk to adjust his behavior without adequate foot ware in an area with star thistle.