Chrysalis High School

Jan 9th, 2018

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Nov 24th, 2017

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Sep 23rd, 2017

I've been attending chrysalis for 2 years (currently a Junior), and this school is life changing. PROS -To begin, group classes are 12 kids or less which allows for the teacher to help every kid, if necessary, and gives a chance for all to ask a question and be heard. There is always an option of taking certain one-on-one classes if a student learns best in a more intimate environment. -This is a small school filled with diversity and acceptance, so if you are an introvert and/or feel unsafe at your current school chrysalis would be a great place for you. -Teachers are caring, helpful, and never bothered by a student's questions. You never have to feel scared to confront a teacher or staff member in this building. -Because class sizes are so small students are able to absorb more in the time of a session compared to other school systems. My experience with public school is that there was a lot of wasted time getting students to quiet down or listen, and there was just too many kids to all help in the frame of time given. Because this is not an issue at chrysalis, students have schedules that can run four days a week or even less! For students with other activities that require a great amount of time this is perfect. CONS -Tuition, to say the least, is a lot. But understandably it pays for all the great things listed above. -The school is small, which holds benefits, but because there aren't a million kids squished together in various situations it can be hard to make friends "naturally." If you are more outgoing or fine with separating school from your social life you have nothing to worry about! But I could imagine other people finding it lonely. -Lastly, because classes aren't as often (compared to public school) and each student absorbs more in every class, there is not much repition or practice. I'm sure some kids have no issue retaining what they learned right off the bat, but I personally do and I notice I retain less info here than I did at public school. Because of this, I just take the free time chrysalis offers to work on memorizing lessons on my own. So for me it's no problem, but I'm just putting it out there so others can know. All in all I love chrysalis. It's minimized (to a major extent) my anxiety for school. Hope this is helpful because I was looking for such reviews when researching this school a couple years ago :)
Jun 7th, 2017