Florida Virtual School Reviews

Teachers are often kind and try their best, but overworked, and being Florida, teachers are not allowed to create their own lessons or assignments, and there is very little flexibility as to how assignments are completed. Often, teacher responses to assignments fall along the lines of "Wow! This is a great essay, but unfortunately you didn't meet some of the arbitrary requirements that the state strictly enforces, so it's a 45/100." On top of that, the software can be described as a hot pile of garbage: Frequent crashes, completed assignments disappearing off the face of the earth - necessitating entirely restarting assignments from square one (sometimes multiple times for the same assignment), and just generally very slow and feels outdated.

To start, I know all children learn differently. Some are advanced enough to find FLVS a success for them. However, my child, an average A & B student, Joined the second semester of 4th grade. He ended strong with good outcome for 4th grade. The teachers he had was pretty good teachers. This year however has been a whirlwind. I have found it to be a bit life consuming and miserable. It is often that your child may have to work on the weekend if he/she does not quite understand certain material in a lesson. If not the weekends, far past 3:30 (regular brick and mortar hours.) Not to mention specials like P.E., Art, Spanish, Computer science - all have their own assignments as well (typically, they give you an assignment due every 2 weeks). It doesn't seem like much, but it is when you're already trying to keep up with the other regular core curriculum classes. It's just an added stress.

This school isn't self-paced and you can't use other resources than the ones you are using on their school website. Also if your kids have IEP or 504 plan, this school doesn't offer that accommodation.

I went to the full time version. Now it's better.

Teachers want to much from you the work is hard and they dont help you they just rush you. Shut this horrible trash place down. My son gets rushed by teachers almost everyday saying he has not submitted work and then I check his compute and work is turned in get it together.

The reason why I genuinely hate FLVS is because you don't get the help needed. Not to mention the only way to learn on FLVS is by reading. So overall it deserves a 1 star and in the future I hope they close FLVS down!

I am not sure how people put up with this registration process. This completely idiotic interface has nothing to do with education. I have spent 6 months trying to register 2 children and it's now October and I spent 7 hr on the phone and the registration process and nothing. If you want to get your kids turned off from their education, FLVS is a good place to start. Nothing makes sense, it's complicated to navigate, it's not parent-friendly, even to register the children. I can imagine the nightmare the children will have using this platform. They need to erase the entire thing and rebuild it base on student and parent usability. This is terrible. The one in Texas takes 30 min and it's done.

Student entered school as a senior. Had her in the wrong class for first six months. She worked ahead so had to start over and nothing she had already done counted. THEN was told she could participate in the graduation ceremony. DAY BEFORE she's told she can't-after they invited her, and asked for a senior pic/quote. Local school board was just as bad. I would never in a hundred years recommend this school.

It's crazy that they say work at your own pace is a lie. It's hard to get in contact with the teachers. I barely can enjoy my personal life. It's so bad everyday I have to worry about this. It's stressful. I have my own life. They contact you many times. The teachers aren't helpful at all. I feel bad for ppl who does this. The questions be hard. They throw random questions in that THEY DON'T teach you. Jesus I would take anything back to get out of this. It's bad and the people who rate it 5 stars is for it to keep their crappy reviews up.

The program lacked Communication with Local schools to allow me to attend ANY events, I was SPECIFICALLY told that I could do the following. I never got the "Walk" experience, I was denied entry to prom and participation in Clubs and Organizations, so my extracurriculars didn't count towards anything. I didn't qualify for Scholarships due to this. The curriculum was the same recycling of dates and facts as any school, but the lack of options as far as what can help you build for your future career was abysmal. Why does a Virtual High School need to use Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing or even have a class called "Computing for College and Careers" when all it was was glorified Typing Tests, I felt like I was being trained as a 1960's Secretary.