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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This sums up all of the issues that Fusion Faces at ALL of their locations...
https://www.aps1.net/DocumentCenter/View/9523/Fusion-SC-Meeting-April-2019

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This is a bizarre list of complaints. Yes, there are fewer hours of direct instruction because every moment of direct instruction is geared to that student. I guarantee that no student in public school is getting 27 hours a week of teacher attention. The complaints about the content of health ed would be irrelevant to me and most parents looking for a school for a struggling student. And no private school, even the most elite, have licensed teachers, so we clearly don't take that as an indicator of quality in other settings.[/quote]

Actually, many private schools in the DC area require teachers to have licenses. [/quote]

Between my two kids, we've attended 5 private schools, mainstream and SN, and none have required their teachers to have licenses or teaching degrees (most teachers at the mainstream schools had degrees in whatever they were teaching).[/quote]

This makes zero sense as all public school teachers are required to be licensed and many are required to have master's degrees.

Wouldn't you be better off just paying individual tutors in each subject?[/quote]

Being licensed means you passed the licensing test, not that you are a better teacher. In our experience, tutors don't know how to create an entire curriculum, but fusion teachers do.[/quote]

The curriculum is made up by the teacher for the student.  That concerned me they didn't have a set curriculum when I looked at it vs. other online programs.  Its a very flexible curriculum to make sure the kids pass the class but we needed one equal and rigorous.

There is zero need to recreate a full curriculum.  Tons of text books the teacher/tutor can use and just work through the chapters or plenty online or you'd think fusion would do one of their on for each class.

Fusion teachers were more like tutors when I talked to them.  Some are actual teachers who knew the subject but many didn't have upper level math or science experience as a teacher at this poster's "private" had or even a public had.  For basic classes, it is probably good as it adapts to your child.[/quote]

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