kieran X.
1/5
this school should be amazing, but it is run by terrible administration who dislike neurodivergence in adults. This was our experience that my children were celebrated for their differences and their mother, who gave them their twice exceptionality, was victimized by the administration that I am also different (I am a severely physically disabled autistic adult who is also twice-exceptional). i claimed medical Accomodation on April 8 in an email CC'd to the board president, and I gave evidence of a life-threatening autoimmune medical flare, and then I was blamed that I suffered the medical flare. My Accomodation exception basis wasn't shared with staff, or anyone. But Accomodations are supposed to protect the disabled. I was exposed to the internal disorganized violence at this school instead by the principal who didn't know what to do with an Accomodation request, slandered by the internal office culture over a period from when the medical flare occurred in Jan-Feb 2023 (which is in writing from my neurologist) until the present day because she did not disclose my Accomodations. This culminated in being shut out from telling this story at AGM-- which is a resource for parents and not colluding administrators-- that her staff were not returning my emails anymore despite my being primary custodial disabled guardian to two students at E2.
The disabled should never need to turn to disability advocates to communicate with any private school that calls itself a "centre of excellence" for autism and neurodiversity. I have never been this targeted or profiled or discriminated against at any other school, and I'm paying for this.
2 of the following reviews ( by wendy shea and christie oswald) are written by employees of the school.
Update/ adjunct: february 5 2024
by trade i am a doctor in zulu indigenous tradition, and on feb 5 2024 E2 Academy called EPS and said that i appear "menacing" and "threatening" in ceremonial clothing, which is clearly a hate complaint. Don't believe indigenous land treaty acknowledgments.
My daughter was permanently removed and her school year ruined after her medical devices that are authorized from two medical professionals were banned. There was a closed-door meeting with four adult teachers circling my singular disabled child as Michelle Smith called her a "brat" and "only the police would put up with (her)"; shortly thereafter Michelle DID call police on my disabled child, and that's when she gave the hate complaint about my indigenous religious attire. NONE of the adult teachers in the closed-door intervention-style meeting intervened to support my daughter as she was verbally abused.
So far one of the responding EPS PACT team officers has bee reprimanded and the other is being investigated; all of this is submitted to the AHRC, chief of police, and was already vetted by Office of the Advocate for Persons with Disabilities.
This came after my son was hit in the head with mechanical equipment and nobody informed his parent, when i'm a medical doctor and a concussion injury is potentially dangerous with very distinct symptoms to watch for. But nobody at E2 Academy informed anyone of the accident, although they freely disclosed to the family of the other child involved, who had open cuts on his face and took two days off school because of injuries sustained on school grounds.
We were excluded from the school skiing field trip also.
I went to EPS, NACIS, chief of police Dale McFee, AB Ed, all of whom vollied back to school board president, and when i asked HIM (Mark Hughes) to investigate E2 Academy for human rights abuses, he BANNED ME instead of helped our family that our disability accommodations have been violated and denied to us.
E2 Academy under Michelle Smith is the nightmare my family cant wake up from. What i see from the parent body , before my family's exile: if you fit the mold and you are not a disabled caregiver, then that's great and its the only kind of caregiver E2 Academy tolerates. If you are disabled/ from indigenous culture or, heaven forbid, both at once: run.
