The Learning Clinic

So many students at this school go to good colleges, U of Ct, Eastern Ct University, Brown, schools in Vermont, Florida, and Massachusetts. One way this school is different from others is that students can make things happen for themselves. You can always find someone to talk to here about your school work, your plans for the future, or how to find a summer job. I wish I could spend more time with the horses.
--Submitted by a parent

This school is an absolute sham. It claims that "every child can succeed", but does so by lowering the bar for "success". The director is a selfish maniac who virtually uses the school as a research facility, collecting data through point sheets and security cameras. I spent the entirety of high school there, and I feel like my childhood has been stolen. The school never did anything to treat the social anxiety problems that have always been holding me back; in fact, it added to them by creating the stigma of having been sent to a "special" school. The hopes and aspirations of students mean nothing in the face of the school's operation as a business and as a laboratory for the director. I can honestly say I have been mentally scarred by The Learning Clinic. I have been left well behind my peers academically and socially. What I got was 5 agonizing years of "stability", only to be ejected into a world I was never given a fair chance to prepare for. It may not be an abusive hellhole like certain other facilities, but the Learning Clinic is nevertheless a destroyer of hope and dreams. And the more capable you are as a person, the more The Learning Clinic will take away.

First let me say as a graduate from this school this school has some major ups and downs. Good things: individual self paced school work, most staff are very nice and helpful. Bad things: School don t have a gym or a science lab!, rule system is very corrupted and the communication between staff is horrible. Students don t have a voice about anything!!! Some of the school admin are very rude and stuck up because they think they know it all but they really don t! An admin goes to Africa to hunt and gives meat to tribes but then the trophy heads end up hanging in the younger student s dorm living room! I stated there are some nice staff but the rule system is very wrong as are the admins. As much as I liked some parts of this school I would not recommend this school to anyone!!

The Learning Clinic is an amazing school/program. Our son, diagnosed with a mood disorder, just completed his first year boarding there, and he is doing so well. The staff is terrific, strong and caring, and the academics are excellent since each child is taught individually. The parents are expected to follow the behavior mod plan at home. Shockingly, with the strength of the school behind us, it works (we were never successful with these type of programs when he lived home.)
--Submitted by a parent