You be say whatever you want about how bad the schools are, or how poorly they are run, but the experience I had with my son at Cross Creek can only be termed positive. Yeah, it set us back about $80,000 over 20 months, but it was better to spend 80K that way than 10K on a funeral.
The kid is now 19 and in college. He isn't perfect by a long shot, but the work they did with him a Cross Creek couldn't have been done, and wasn't being done, in the lavish and highly honored school district in our affluent suburban area.
He received a high school diploma at Cross Creek, and is now passing all his college classes, while working part-time in an excellent job. He certainly attained a work ethic that he never held before Cross Creek.