Opportunities For Learning

So let us begin… OFL, is not a real ‘learning environment’, not a helpful place, and I don’t recommend it. I am a high school student and took Health A over summer to get ahead. When you first register they make the process complicated. There are forms and signatures required, which are all online. This surprised me as, this process could have easily been done at home, avoiding the long time waiting. When they said it was an orientation I was expecting a speech and detailed analysis of the processes of OFL. Which didn’t happen, I was completely lost. When I came in on the first day, I brought everything, and was ready to test, because that’s what you do there. However, when I got there for my 2:00pm class there were students who were still working from my teacher’s 1:00pm class, which didn’t really end until 2:30. Which meant for thirty minutes we were waiting, and waiting. I was extremely disappointed in this because I had done my part to complete the units and come on time, but my teacher just tells me to wait patiently. Finally, I was able to take my test though. One time she even called her husband to ask how his day was, and I had to wait to even do anything because the teacher has to give me the test. But this still happened on other occasions where I had to wait 15 — 20 minutes until my teacher was able to let me test. In some scenarios I couldn’t take 2 tests because she wasted half the time with her previous class. It was very rude of my teacher to do this, and I am disappointed with OFL for doing this. Other than my overall bad experience the work was easy, testing was quick and simple, and it made taking a class over summer adjust to your schedule. If those weren’t in the review it’d have 1 star, because of your lack of professionalism. As I am disappointed, I am also thankful I got the class done over summer.

As an educational institution, Opportunities For Learning falls a bit short. As a musician during my Sophomore year of high school, I transferred from Saugus High to OFL hoping to pursue a major label with my band.
To say the least I didn’t learn anything.
Everything is «learned» from reading and filling out packets, to take Scantron tests at each visit. You are assigned a mentor/​teacher who guides you through the process, but in all reality, you aren’t necessarily learning. I took a semester’s worth of classes here and promptly returned to public school. Although the courses were ridiculously simple, I felt like I didn’t effectively learn from cold, impersonal bookwork.
People assume OFL will ruin your future, and although it affected my college decisions, I still ended up at UCLA out of high school so it didn’t turn out too bad. Think about it. If you are truly too busy outside of school to be willing to miss out on a high school graduation, miss out on potential lifelong friendships, miss out on having inspirational teachers, OFL can be a great choice. Don’t be too hasty when deciding whether or not to have your child attend this charter school. I was too excited to «not go to school» to really step back and weigh the pros and cons.
For a quick way to get your GED, but at a price.

a great way to get ahead over summer with reasonable work and reasonable tests… im usually an A/​B student, and i took history classes all years of high school @ OFL got A’s almost all classes, i think 1 B.//
given workbooks fror each section then a test per work book. teachers are nice and helpful, work is moderate, one or two projects, tests are very reasonable, and a great way for those to get ahead, or those not too well in school to do well
and its FREE