Ann Arbor Academy

My son attended this school and I found the supervision and learning support to be excellent. This school turned him around - he learned to read, and to this day writes above grade level (he transferred to a larger public school, because he didn't need the support available at the Academy after a certain point). The teachers are caring, and the curriculum is individualized. There has been a change in the administration since the previous review, and the reorganized school no longer struggles with supervision or communication issues. I could not recommend it more highly.

Several older students at this school (there are only about 50 of varying ages – all ages interacting with each other) taught my TWELVE year old how to smoke cigarettes, what pot looks and smells like (a kid brought it to school – a new take on “show and tell,” I suppose), what “shrooms” do and how to identify the hallucinogenic fungi (before this lovely educational experience my child thought they were just cute, tasty, and sometimes poisonous), a student stated that one other student came to school “tripping,” and I could go on and on. Having our child attend this school was the worst decision my husband and I have ever made. We paid $1600.00/mo. for our child to be wholly unsupervised at lunch and break time (this is when the kids smoke and do God knows what else) and be “educated” by these delinquents. Certain students often yell out in class and curse at staff. The staff is ill-prepared to handle the chaos that regularly ensues and did an extremely poor job of keeping us informed on a daily basis, if at all. Educationally, I am not sure how to rate this place; however, I did find it to be quite unchallenging for my child (high functioning autistic spectrum/2E). It’s more of a dysfunctional zoo housed in a tiny warehouse.