Excel Academy (Jjaep)

While this school might help kids who are troubled and in need of strict guidance by law enforcement type teachers etc. Educationally it is not really a school at all. My 12 year old was sent there this year for bringing a pocket knife to school (another child gave it to her and told her that she needed "protection" because he heard a rumor that she was going to be jumped after she got off of the bus. Before being sentenced to this "school" she was an AP student with a clean record and had never been in any trouble before. She is the youngest child in the school and is surrounded by teens who are in gangs, who routinely skip school, who smoke, drink and do drugs etc. In class the teachers do not teach but instead give the kids assignments that they turn in at the end of each class with no feedback or grades to know if they are doing the assignments correctly. The teachers cuss in front of the kids and allow the students to cuss in class. On her first day a teacher said to the class " We don't be touching no other folk's hair up in here." I don't expect too much from a place like this but I do expect that the people who are supposed to be teaching my child know how to speak proper English and do so in front of their student. Students are searched every morning upon their arrival, the girls must lift their bras so that security can ensure that they are not bringing weapons or drugs to school. A guest speaker this week encouraged the female class (all females in the school are in the same class regardless of age or grade level - this is why, I assume that the teachers do not actually teach) to go to cosmetology school. My child has always planned to attend a major university. An assistant teacher today told the girls during a science class that we are created by god as man does not have the power to create life. The fact is that the kids that are sent here are forced to stay until they have completed their "sentence" and can return to normal schools. If you have a troubled child who needs more focus on structure and constant supervision rather than an education then this might be the school for you, but if you find yourself in the position that my family is in, with a good kid who made one poor judgment call then I strongly suggest that you get your child into a private school or at the very least hire a tutor for the core subjects because there is no way that they will be able to catch up once they enter their home school again.