Hoping to get a bit more information on unstructured times at Fusion. The 1 to 1 appeal is huge, but we are concerned about the unstructured times and what support is available to supervise kids, make sure they are on task with homework and monitor at lunch. We have a middle schooler.

Is Fusion sort of a franchise in that the quality and approach really varies by location? Does anyone have experience with the DC campus in DuPont? After reading many of these reviews I’m wondering if we should be looking to Tysons instead….my child loves the idea of learning one on one but also wants some social interaction etc

Some people commented on the quality of teachers. Pay is a huge problem and as a result they have a lot of turnover at some campuses. Also, teacher qualifications are iffy - most are not trained as educators so it depends on what they are teaching. For some subjects content expertise is more important than teaching experience.

My child has dyslexia/dyscalculia and goes to Columbia. I posted above, they don’t remediate, which wasn’t expected, but they accommodate and tailor to her strengths. We’ve been very happy and it has been her best school experience in about a decade. That being said, her social life is not based around the school at all.

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Anonymous wrote:They have no idea how to deal with kids with disabilities. We had a bad experience at Alexandria.

Same for us - at Alexandria.

I acknowledge my child’s behaviors in homework cafe/lunch but there really wasn’t any effort communicated to us to try to help my child overcome difficulties with a particular peer.


They did return our deposit when they said my child could not continue there so that is something.

PP here who wrote about Tysons - when we were looking at schools our ed consultants told us some campuses were very very hit or miss - they highly recommended Tysons.

Anonymous wrote:They have no idea how to deal with kids with disabilities. We had a bad experience at Alexandria.

Same for us - at Alexandria.

I acknowledge my child’s behaviors in homework cafe/lunch but there really wasn’t any effort communicated to us to try to help my child overcome difficulties with a particular peer.


They did return our deposit when they said my child could not continue there so that is something.

They have no idea how to deal with kids with disabilities. We had a bad experience at Alexandria.

I’m one of the PP who said we’ve had a good experience at Tyson’s. I wanted to add more detail - good experience in that the administration and teachers are heavily involved in the community. I feel like I can call them and work through things. I also like that they are strict on behavior and respond quickly. My child doesn’t have academic issues though so I don’t know what kinds of support exist. I do always remind myself that no school is perfect - and you bring all of your problems with you - the academics are very solid and the stress level because of the schedule and environment low. Socially it’s small but my child does have friends and social connections. You also get a daily write up for each class so if there was a problem I like that I’m in theory not going to be blind sided (which I was by our previous school)

We’ve had a great experience at the Columbia campus.

We are also at Tysons and it has been a great experience for my kid - life changing, in fact. Definitely recommend this community.

Different poster but we’ve had a very good experience at the Tyson’s campus. I feel like there is a lot of contact with the school. The homework cafe leaders also reach out.

Anonymous wrote:maybe it depends on the campus? We have had an AMAZING experience for my daughter. literally a game changer and life saver.

Do you mind if I ask which campus you had a great experience with? We are looking at
dc but I’m not sure if he might have more social interaction at the Tysons one…

Anonymous wrote:maybe it depends on the campus? We have had an AMAZING experience for my daughter. literally a game changer and life saver.

Agreed. We had a very positive experience at the Rockville campus. My high schooler was even a little ahead when he moved to a new school mid-year, which really helped smooth the transition. The set-up at Fusion helped restore his confidence.

maybe it depends on the campus? We have had an AMAZING experience for my daughter. literally a game changer and life saver.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted before but someone recommended an online school with a tutor to support over fusion when we looked into enrolling. Years later we are doing a combination of this, homeschool classes and community college classes. It took a while to find the right fit but was much less expensive than Fusion to finish HS.

This makes more sense. One person pushes the school here but it did not look good when I looked at it.

Can you share more about how you are accomplishing this? I think a setup like this would be beneficial for my sophomore dyslexic DD.

Not that poster but some public school systems offer virtual and/or early college so kids can take classes at community college and get HS credit for it. Usually, it starts jr. year. I'm not sure how parents homeschool high school kids in higher levels and usually homeschooling is kids doing an online class or self taught class which in less kids are really smart and motivated that sounds like a set up to fail (or you have parents who can actually teach).