>>1954909

Before this goes much farther I wanted to provide some insight and perspective on what Monarch Academy is.

I have first-hand experience with it since my daughter attended the school in Glen Burnie for two years. She was one of the first classes to attend the school.

Why did I send her there? Maryland has terrible public elementary schools. I know, I attended one when I was younger. In Prince George's county, if you are smart and white you can expect to be bullied and harassed for the color of your skin and your academic achievement. This is not something I wanted for my first born child. It's my understanding that the local school for us had a significant population of non-English speaking hispanics. I was a bit concerned my daughter would not fit-in because she does not speak Spanish and had begun researching charter schools early on since my husband and I were uncertain we could afford a private school. (The DC burbs are not cheap!)

Monarch Academy seemed like it would fulfill what we were looking for. Around the same time my daughter was also admitted to a pretty good private school but we decided to send her to Monarch because it would not incur any significant additional costs on us. Both schools were quite a distance from where we lived but Monarch Academy also provided bus service which was a plus.

The school promised to have 'Progressive' methods. This worried me a bit since I know that Maryland has a history of bungling up education with their progressive ideas about how to teach kids how to read. The Children's Guild, however, posted all sorts of information about how their schools had a very high college acceptance rate, so this tended to dull down any worries in that regard.

In general, I loved the school. It was beautiful and brightly decorated inside. The murals were amazing. Before anyone leaps on the 'Monarch' name, I can assure you that they are not training young girls to be sex kittens or anything like that. They have a policy of allowing parents to drop in at any time. One thing I did not like about the school is that they didn't turn away any kids who were admitted through their lottery no matter how messed up they were. This was a significant problem. There were some kids in my daughter's class who showed classic symptoms of children with serious behavioral attention-seeking problems. They would act out in class, badmouth the teacher, and consume entirely too much class time being disruptive. This would happen again and again to the extent that I think it really did take away from the learning environment. When I saw it in person, it made me angry.

We moved away before my daughter started 2nd grade so I have no idea whether the school's methods for disruptive children were ever actually successful. I don't believe the school did my daughter any favors with their 'progressive' methods. I ended up enrolling her in Kumon for several years to help her 'catch up' to where I felt she ought to be. She is now a gifted student at another elementary school and she gets straight-A's.

I really should have home-schooled her, but I have a low self esteem and my efforts to 'teach' her had always ended poorly and with a great deal of frustration. She was always far more attentive with a teacher who was not me. I did remain very active in her schooling up until my second child was born. I went on field trips, visited the class, that sort of thing, so I feel like I understand the environment my daughter was in.

If 'Monarch' had anything to do with MKUltra in this case, I'm thinking maybe they have made strides in trying to use those methods toward education? I am not an ignorant anon. I have read up on MKUltra and I saw no evidence of anything spoopy there.