Independence Nontraditional - High School

Pulled my child out because of unsatisfactory services. The admin staff specially Linh Collier is extremely rude. They went against my child’s court order and made changes to my child’s emergency contacts without my approval. When I brought it up and escalated they sent me a copy of custody laws (which I know) but continued to fail to read the limitations of our court order, pulling my child in danger. Even while pulling out, when I requested the records, I was told to wait for a week (which was going to delay my child’s admission to new school). I ended up obtaining those from the county the next day. It shows the laziness of the staff. I emailed a teacher to provide recommendation letter, who did not respond. They do not have special education classroom and one of children had to go to another school just because this one can’t provide adequate services. Definitely not a school for families who care about their child’s behavior and education. If staff is irresponsible and rude, what would they teach the children!

My child loves going to school. He started here in kindergarten during covid and his amazing teacher taught these kids to read via zoom. All of the teachers are involved with several aspects, there is a big team spirit in this school. The principal will always be available when you need her. It's a big school but nobody gets lost in the crowd, every individual is treated as such with individual learning styles. They have an amazing robotics team, a science summer camp (camp invention) and technology in every room. We have not been disappointed in 3 years here.

For some reason this year few students in the school are destroying the reputation of this school specially in junior and seniors