Shiiiii I was there for like 2 years and den they last minute tried making it grouped homes but…read morethat ain't work so I ran away and came to Oklahoma it's been not a year an a half but now I am actually just looking on how to the agape boarding school yearbooks!!

I thought I should write a review not as a former student or as a parent, but as a sibling. My…read morebrother was sent here back in 1999-2000. It was a very sad time for our family as my mom was a single working mom trying to raise 2 kids. My mom is not a subpar parent either....we were raised going to catholic school and had an amazing support system around us...my brother just got mixed with the wrong set of friends which created a slippery slope for him. I went to visit my brother one time while he was in this place and I will never forget it. I cried that entire time watching how this place operates. I knew it wasn't a good place but my brother was not allowed to inform of us of anything until he was out. EVERYTHING is monitored. Your mail, your phone calls...everything. My brother got put on the wall (this is where they make you stand facing the wall all waking hours...even while you eat) just for asking someone for a pencil without his big brother (mentors for new students) present. He was on the wall for 2 weeks for that. I chose to not go back to visit until his graduation and I couldn't wait to hug him and hear from him what really goes on in this place. But here is the thing...we never got much out of him. He was so traumatized that he still to this day won't speak about this place. I tried asking him questions for years and he would just say that he wouldn't send his worst enemy there. Horrible things go on there and then he would just shut down and say he didn't want to talk about. I will say that he did graduate on honor role but then again my brother has always been exceedingly intelligent. He came home and was about to go right back down the same path until HE decided he didn't want to anymore. The school did not help him...I just wish my mom had a better knowledge on what to do instead of being brainwashed by family and friends to send him here. I have a few friends who also happened to go here and they have been way more vocal with me about what goes on in this place and it is awful!! I would ask my brother if he witnessed these things and he said yes. Abuse...physical...sexual...you name it...it is happening here. "Ma'am" (that is what you called the lady in charge) scared the living daylights out of me. I feel so sad my brother had to experience this for 3 years! I can't even imagine the trauma he has sustained from it that he can't even speak about it 20 years later. Breaks my heart.

I really want to like this place. It is very clean, which is unusual for a gymnastics place. They…read morereally care about the appearance of the gym and pay attention to detail. However, we have been here 5 months and my daughter has learned no new skills. I realize she needs to take several hours a week to get many accomplishments in gymnastics. She is only in a rec class. My issue is that the coaches don't really seem to care if she gets any new skills. They rarely spot the students. It is as if they are just going through a "process" week after week. They don't "get it" that parents are paying for their child to learn/improve in gymnastics. They have no vested interested, it seems that this is just a job to them and they don't really give their best efforts. I get it they are young and just minimum wage employees, but I am really frustrated with the investment and care for the students by the teachers.

Holy cow. Took my little girl there today for tryouts (she was a level 4 in California where we…read morecame from) and they were dropping girls from the pyramid and girls were getting hurt. One little girl ran off crying because of one coaches yelling at her. Found out later it was the coaches daughter. The gym is dirty and awful. Found out the owners were from Nixa (where ever that is) and they look down on anyone that lives in Springfield. Finally one of the coaches almost got my daughter hurt by forcing a scared little girl to go on a pyramid that fell and would have went head first into the floor if it wasn't for my daughter. Needless to say I went elsewhere.