Resource Description
Acellus resources are available through Acellus Academy, an accredited online private school, headquartered in Kansas City Missouri, and Power Homeschool, a flexible online resource with affordable classes designed for students to learn at their own pace. Both are programs of the International Academy of Science, a non-profit organization with a long history and mission of advancing education and scientific research. Acellus Academy provides online instruction to students in grades K-12 through the Acellus Learning System, which was developed by the International Academy of Science and is used to provide primary instruction to students in schools across the United States. Power Homeschool is a program intended to aid parents in homeschooling their student. Parents may choose up to 6 courses at a time from numerous courses (grades PreK-12). Students are able to learn at their own pace under the supervision and assistance of their parent.
Website: Acellus/Power Homeschool
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Cons: The company does not understand homeschooling, zero loyalty to its patrons, and is covering their mess with lies.
Grades Used: 6-9
Irate mom! We have used Power homeschool for 2.5 years and it worked perfectly. Mainly needed it for math, but also liked the English for reading and comprehension. They jerked the rug out from us all this week with zero notice!! Other reviews saying the content is lost, well it's not really. If you log in as a parent you can get grades. But for the student, it's gone! And there are NO WORKSHEETS or TESTS! How in the world does an education company think this is useful to parents? What am I supposed to do, make up my own algebra questions? No way. My son has special needs for math only, so tutorial mode is the perfect fit. They are trying to muscle people into their Acellus school and I do not appreciate it. I hope sparks fly from their computers when they read my scathing email telling them how poor customer service and customer loyalty this was for us. I emailed the tutorial address and they claimed they will manually put the tutor program back, and it will be the same for the classes I asked. But they completely blew their reputation.
Cons: scam behavior
Grades Used: standard
This company has taken money from people and wiped out their entire school year. As a homeschool parent and educator, I am appalled and disgusted by the behavior of these people out for profit - not educating kids. They have shown their true colors in that they do not understand what it means to homeschool your child, educational choice, and parent-led instruction. Stay away if you value freedom and choice in your child's education. It is not special needs friendly as advertised either. They lie and cover their tracks with deleted content and fake social media posts by fake "parents". You will be very sorry if you buy into their propaganda. The owner gave himself his college degree! Awful!