flex academy of performing arts
Bolton
FlexSchool is a unique learning network designed specifically for gifted and
twice exceptional (2e) middle and high school students. At this time two
campuses serve the Tristate area, one in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey and
another in Bronxville, New York. FlexSchool embraces students for who and where
they are, then supports them as they learn to thrive. Small, ability and
discussion based classes taught by subject experts ensure meaningful
conversations and the opportunity to ask high-level questions. The faculty,
trained and supported by learning specialists and mental health professionals,
focuses on critical thinking in all areas of learning. Our Cloud Campus welcomes
online students from around the world into live, discussion-based classes and
our community, either full-time or part-time. FlexSchool has had great success
with remote students from Florida, Washington, California, West Virginia, United
Arab Emirates, Bermuda, and Switzerland among other places! back next History
FlexSchool started to save one twelve-year-old girl. Jane loved to learn what
she wanted to learn, and spent hours engrossed in videos and web pages about
animals. She could tell you about muscle cells and animal anatomy. She
researched Native Americans and made all of the games and weapons used by the
Lenni-Lenape out of found objects and craft supplies. She spent hours drawing
and painting and could write fiction better than most college students. Yet, she
loathed school. She rarely spoke in class, dropped out of the gifted and
talented program, either didn’t do her homework or would forget to turn it in.
She had As on the tests and Cs and Ds in the class. Jane’s academic future
looked dismal. Poor grades and high test scores are not a winning combination
for college admission. Her public school was not the right place for her, but
neither were the local private schools. Academically-oriented private schools do
not accept students with poor grades. Schools that accept students with poor
grades are not always academically rigorous. Stalemate. Until we started
FlexSchool. Jane spent six years at FlexSchool, learned to love learning again,
graduated in 2020, and attends a well-known liberal arts college studying
anthropology, linguistics, map-making, and art.
