Have to share my experience with My Online Schooling(MOS) and Interhigh (IH).
I enrolled my DS in Sept with MOS , simply because I needed flexibility with the time table. They promised they will look at times of the lessons, and although not guaranteed, they will try to accommodate my schedule , my DS is in fulltime training hence us taking him out of mainstream school couple of years ago. He is in Y7.
Guess what, all its was false promises. They were so adamant they cannot change any of his times at all, so behaved even worse than his conventional school before.
His French was once a week and all the assignments and grades are done during the lesson. He could not attend it, as was in training. After contacting them numerous times trying to find a solution, I even suggested he can record himself and send the recordings over to his teacher so she can grade him that way. No, no help at all.
In the end we had to abandon french.
History. Where do I start. It's a year 7 students. I happened to listen to few of the lessons as he was listening to them whilst driving , she talked to them like they were 5 year olds. Clearly was never prepared, was googling the topic she was supposed to teach whilst in the lesson. They were learning g about medieval torture. She wanted the class to draw the scenes of torture, but all the kids blatantly refused to do it.
Then she spent 15 minutes of the lesson asking 11 year olds out of all the torture methods which ones would they be ok to die by.
I mean, hello?? Talking about mental health here? Why would you want an 11 year old imagine how I would feel to die, by drowning or eating bread or hanging. Disturbing to say the least.
When I asked MOS office to look into this, they said it is all within the curriculum.
Well, I had to move his history somewhere else then.
They never there to discuss anything. You can never get through. Everything takes ages.
In the end I decided to try Interhigh.
What a world of difference!!
Their setup is much better.
You have 3 lessons per subject. Each lesson 40 minutes.
1 lead lesson s like a lecture type where engagement is minimal and you can have a lot of students there , sometimes even a 100.
But no one interrupts, everyone listens and engages when asked.
Teacher sound so professional! It was music to my ears.
The followup lessons are 4 to 7 kids. Sometimes even less if some cant attend.
Amazing ! The level of teaching. Interaction, suppose is incredible.
Now that my kid is doing french with IH it is his favourite subject believe it or not. Science is fantastic there and history as well.
Do no waste my time with MOS as I did and sign up with Interhigh if you are about your child's education. It's cheaper as well.