Crimson Global Academy

Student comments / Case studies 

Student 1 

Student 1’s family moved from living in Malaysia.  She was attending international school in Malaysia.  When her family moved back to Australia she was enrolled in a private girls school but found herself to be unmotivated and bored.  

At CGA she is able to take accelerated classes and increased flexibility in timing and the subjects she takes.  She says she has more free time now.  She thinks it’s a pretty social online environment with her global peers with social aspects like Strava competition and assemblies as well as a lot of online messenging her peers. 

She’s the blue house captain.  She likes CGA because she think it’s a place of like minded, high achieving individuals. She says the teachers are caring and invested in students as people.  

Student 2 

Student 2 and her parents were on another video call and spoke of the incredible transformation in their daughter after she started at CGA.  

Student 2 was studying in an NZ high school and her parents found that she was disengaged with her mental health suffering.  They couldn’t homeschool her and thought of CGA as a “holding place” until they found a suitable solution.  Her mum said initially they thought they’d try CGA, but were a bit hesitant about the academic environment as they didn’t think their daughter was of the same calibre and previously didn’t have good work ethic.  

She said that they were surprised when she started achieving incredible results after starting at CGA.  Not only did her academics and work ethic improve, but her mental health recovered as well.  She now as aspirations to study medicine and physics in a US college.  

Her mother spoke emotionally about how they almost missed the opportunity to see how brilliant their daughter was had they not discovered CGA. 

Student 3 

Student 3 was studying in a local government school in NZ’s South Island.  However she had aspirations to go to university in the UK to study med at Oxford.  She found CGA via Facebook ads.  

She thinks the community and the curriculum at CGA is more suited to help her achieve her goals of getting into Oxford med.  She enjoys the flexible timing of the classes as well as the opportunity to advance when needed.  

From what I understand she still studies at the local high school in NZ taking their curriculum as well as three subjects at CGA and swimming outside of school.  She thinks the CGA curriculum is more advanced and has helped her local grades improve.  

Final words 

Crimson Globe Academy could be an exciting alternative to traditional schooling for some students.  As it is online, the school can cater for academically ambitious, high achieving students who don’t have time to muck around travelling.  It also seems to be geared towards students who want to head overseas to study in top universities around the world.  

According to CGA, the school also offers high quality education to other kinds of students – those who are disengaged, suffer from social anxiety or cannot attend local schools for other reasons.  For this reason, CGA could be an interesting alternative that families may not have previously considered.  

Although it seems there are a lot of academic benefits, as a parent, I would be a little cautious about kids being fully online from such a young age.  Being a fully digital for my work now, I know I made most of my best friends at a young age when I was forced to be around people in high school or university ( when university used to be in person lectures ).  

Given the choice, I probably would have chosen to be fully online from a young age too.  I love the benefits of efficiency and convenience, but I would have missed out on making some of my closest life long friends that I have today.