AltSchool – Palo Alto

My second grader attended public school last year and was not engaged in the lectures and worksheets — which was about all they seemed to do. After having him evaluated, his psychologist recommended that we send him to a more challenging school and make certain that his teacher really get to know him. We could not have done better than Altschool. His teacher knows him so well and understands his strengths and weakness and interests and has such great ideas about how to help him. He adores his teacher and tells us all the time how he loves school now. He comes home and talks about the interesting projects they work on. He has programmed robots, created an audio book, and built a bridge, to name a few. His teacher also makes sure he’s improving at the right pace for him in the more traditional academic subjects and updates us on his progress. Our entire family is so much happier now! I highly recommend. The only downside is the cost, but they do give out financial aid.