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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I realize this post has not been active for awhile but after speaking with the owners I am very hesitant to ever consider this as a legitimate school for children. A gifted program without the qualified support staff? A school for math and science without a math teacher? [b]When I listen to the owners talk I see the money sign in their eyes and pure crap coming out of their mouths[/b]. They seem like greedy politicians who exploit education for money. [/quote]

I've posted here before to say that I know the Heitzes and they are some of the nicest, most genuine and most generous people I've ever met. If they were "money grubbing politicians", they wouldn't have, as small business owners, provided scholarships to deserving children to attend Ideaventions over the years. My child loved every minute she spent at Ideaventions and learned a great deal there. She won't be attending the Academy due to cost and distance, but there are evidently plenty of families who disagree with you since the school was initially planned to encompass 6th-8th grade and they added 4th and 5th due to popular demand.

I'm not sure where your rabid dislike originates from, but I'm very sure it's entirely misplaced. [/quote]

Np here. I agree that they are very nice people, but they are not educators and should not be running a school without any formal educational education or experience. And the reason they added 4th and 5th was not popular demand, it was to accommodate their younger child. [/quote]

So they added two full grades for just one kid, huh? And presumably no one else is interested in signing up? Then why didn't they do that to begin with?
As for "formal educational education," as you put it, after years of running into "educators" who not only do not know their subject matter too well but convey it and assess it poorly, I would take a subject matter expert over an "education expert" any day to teach my kids. If you'd rather have "education experts" go for it.[/quote]

You don't think it would have been suspicious if they offered 4th, but not 5th? There aren't going to be enough kids to separate them out by grade level anyway so they will end up in the same group regardless. [/quote]

Nice burn.[/quote]

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