Home school, Jubilee Academy, why are there so many against?

Question

I have omly homeschooled my son for 2 yrs now. My question is regarding Jubilee and Morning Star and why people have said to stay away. I used Jubilee at the end of last school year and had no problems at all. Curriculum was fine and needed little suppliment. My son enjoyed it and I thought it had lots of information, online books, tests,work, and all in all very good. I did only use the last 2 months, so I may be missing something. Can someone fill me in? It also seems that she homeschooled her own and have had writings published by McGraw. Maybe she just had some bad luck with her first school and has corrected it. I really don't know and am looking for any info on this as I was going to re enroll this yr because it was such a good program for the cost. Thanks

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You know... I really recommend that you do some reading up.. on both sides of the situation and make your decision based on what YOU feel and not the opinion of others. Someone can always dig up dirt.

Recently a girl here on YA was posting (in troll like fashion) over and over again about Mimi, Grace Academy etc. Although she received numerous answers, she posted again (and again).  As she was the student with a goal (heading back to public school) it seemed that she didn't get the answers she wanted.

As for http://cobranchi.com/, all I saw on his website was that he is an antagonist and because he disagrees, he baits her. The other site (AHA News) is similar in content and cross referenced.

I too have had dealings with Learning by Grace without a problem (Free Narnia Study a few years ago). It worked smoothly, lots of information and my son enjoyed it. We don't use computer based learning for our studies, but that is our choice.

I don't have a problem with various school names. Some are because of the different format. I have (in the past) had multiple websites with a different approach to the same information.  Having multiple school names or websites (some of which are affiliate programs) is not illegal or misleading IMHO.  You can go to Learning By Grace (http://www.learningbygrace.org/) and see the different sites and why they are different.  I know she owns some other domains... so do many people in looking to the future. Again, this is not illegal or even misleading.. just business.

Much of the history online about Mimi and her husband are years old (2001) and mostly related to Einstein Academy in PA that folded. (Now, I may be wrong here but as far as I can see, Mimi and her husband were not criminally charged.)

Personally, I think they got in way over their heads on Einstein and learned some pretty tough lessons in dealing with the public school system.  Although it didn't work, the programs through Learning by Grace seem to be successful and a benefit to those that use the program.  That Mimi is not a great debater has little reflection on her ability of providing the Learning By Grace programs that have been working thus far for many people. MHO.. anyway.

So, do your own checking and make your own opinion. If you have been satisfied.. stay with it.  If you are uncomfortable with what you have learned.. find another program.

Answer 3

I think there's something to worry about when a woman feels the need to start umpteen homeschool academies. If you search online, there is even something that has come up where she apparently pretended to be somebody else in a forum (IP address is the same) where this 'somebody else' was praising her and her academies.

It's not about the curriculum, it's about the woman behind the curriculum, which your post has given me the chance to learn about! Check out this site in particular: http://aha.typepad.com/aha_news_blog/200...

Answer 4

I tell people as a "buyer beware"that Mimi Rothschild Mandel has been known to open online/correspondance schools, under many different names, take people's money and give them nothing that was promised. If you go to the site:

http://cobranchi.com/

and search under her name you can read the discussions of things that have happened and get an (unconnected with Mimi) idea of what has happened in the past.

I'm not "against" Jubileee or whatever her latest creation is called, I just want to make people aware that it may not be what they think.

The link provided by the poster above does not work, so I corrected it here:

http://www.thejubileeacademy.org/article...