Brisbane School of Distance Education

As a former student of Brisbane School of Distance Education, I must confess that the school experience was quite terrible. The teachers showed no interest in teaching, and they rarely assigned any work for students to complete. Their approach seemed to be limited to marking attendance and then dismissing the class. Despite being a straight-A student at this school, I didn't feel the need to study or put in much effort. However, once my parents became aware of the school's quality, they enrolled me in another private distance education program. It was there that I realized how far behind I was compared to my peers, despite my straight-A record at Brisbane School of Distance Education. To any parents reading this, if you are considering enrolling your child in this school, I urge you to think twice before potentially jeopardizing their future. Brisbane School of Distance Education almost had a detrimental impact on my life, but fortunately, thanks to God's mercy, I was able to transfer to a much better private distance education program where I received the necessary support from my teachers.

Positives: physically beautiful school, majority of the staff are friendly. Despite being online, BrisbaneSDE offers many oppourtunities for students to socialise such as camps, cross countries, etc. The school follows the Australian and QCAA curriculum and teaches children like any other regular school. Great if your child can't attend a face-to-face school or is an independent learner. Also good for preventing bullying (cyberbullying may become an issue). Negatives: price of social activities is expensive and hard to access if you don't live near the school. Likewise, your child can start to experience feelings of loneliness and isolation due to the online environment. However, this is expected being online and can be fixed with extracurriculars (if you can afford them, that is). Since the teacher cannot physically see your child in classes, not focusing properly on work and falling behind may occur due to this. It is your job as a parent to ensure your child is completing work and submitting it on time. If you do not have the time to supervise, this can become a significant issue. Furthermore, assessments are all due at the same time usually. This can cause students stress. I would've rated 4 stars, unfortunately I didn't have the greatest experience with them trying to get extra resources for subjects, as well as the school nurse did not reply to my email despite waiting more than a month. Otherwise, good school.

If you are thinking about home schooling ,This school is very helpful. They teach children as same as normal school by online . you need good internet environment . And you need support your child for supervise and help to learning . Student sit in front of computer 8-2pm, (Mon-Thursday)about 8-12:30pm (Wed, Friday) Teacher are educated for special need children better than normal school. More experienced. However, some of teacher are not know about special need mean, so complaining and calling us immediately about some issue for child. Good things are no bullying. Because children are at home and safe. My son is so relaxing at home while studying. Drinking coffee and sometimes drawing picture and waiting teacher giving task. I think teachers are more absent often than normal school. Often no teacher and only some task on computer. It need understand instructions themselves. But if you finish early you can have free time more. (Looks like teachers are looking after many grade by small amount of teachers. ) School works are ok. But some assignments need scan and upload pdf file to send school or post mail by due date. Some of children can do themself, some of you need to help it. Most teacher send email to parents what their assessment due date and files . So you can know what your children doing in study. They also provide camping and school events often. If your child keen to join , maybe fun activities in real world. Teachers are kind. School fee is about 1000$ a year. But no student uniform and I think similar cost for total school life. If you would like to make student card ,you can get it as same as normal school. We don’t know how much study is same as other school. But they have NAPLAN and so on if you need test. It is many documents for home schooling . Everything online . You can ask school if you don’t understand how to do it. But replying not fast . You need patient. Online school mean that you need to do some of teachers work as your child support.

The customer service is terrible, they have not gotten back to us with login information for my childs email and student learning platform and SCHOOL STARTS TOMORROW. I dont know what kind of crack they are smoking there but apparently its the one that makes them incapable to not doing their jobs. And don't bother calling them because they will sent an automated voice saying 'email us' and guess what, they never email you back. Their website is outdated and they still send pdfs from 5 years ago and their url links that they send you via email dont work (says 404 error not found). Please don't enrol your child here unless you have to.

Brisbane School of Distance Education is an amazing school, from someone who has and had an inside viewpoint of the staff, students and overall school curriculum, I can definitely say that majority of the negative reviews are somewhat to completely incorrect. Unfortunately the social side of things is poor, but you need to understand that this is the point of a DE school, it's done online, hence the name 'Distance' - if you want a social school, an on-campus school would be suitable for you. We have various social events throughout the year. Whether that is simple meetups, excursions, camps or special events like carnivals. Students can communicate with each other before, during and after class. From my experience, teachers are quick to respond and are very happy to provide their help to students. Multiple times throughout the school years my teachers respond even within a matter of minutes to emails and private messages. They are very kind and welcoming to all new students, and are extremely flexible with work for newer classmates until they settle in. Students are typically the same and invest in helping their new and previous classmates. Others and myself have all found it very easy to make new friends compared to on-campus schools. In fact at one point I had managed to get 10 in one single day... DE schools are not for everyone, but that does not mean some people won't be suitable. Highly recommended school if you don't mind the lack of socialization and increase of time spent on technology.