I did homeschool my child for a year and have spent many, many hours working with him. This isn't a case of a child being ignored by lazy, neglectful parents. He has a problem learning that I have not been able to help much with and the Huntington people say that it is something they can accomplish.
What I am hoping to get from this is responses from people who have shelled out their hard earned money to Huntington and can comment from personal experience whether or not it was or is worth it.
Thanks for your reply.
Can you describe the problem? Give a very specific example of something he didn't understand, and how you tried to get it across to him, without success?
Let’s get started.
If you have a child who is a B student, he does not have to go here, even a C student. If you think to yourself, and say, “our son / daughter is a smart kid” this is not for you. Unless your child is one of the very few that is a 17 year old and still cannot read the word “addition”, then fair enough, send him all you’d like. But it up the unthinking parents to send a B student to this oh so useless facility. Is it really worth $6,000 out of your pocket to bring up a grade level? If you have a smart kid, and he gets B’s, please take into account that it may be other things, he or she is not stupid. If he can piece together a sentence using even a slightly high vocabulary for his age his program isn’t worth your, or their time. I am a student who goes to this program 3 times a week, and more often than not outsmarts most of the teachers there. My parents put little to no thought into this decision and now they hear from the “professionals” that I need help and they don’t listen to what I have to say. I find the program so incredibly easy, I blow through every lesson like it’s nothing, so they began trying to make it harder. Time limits, higher grade levels programs, more work. And after all of that, I still get through everything with great ease. I have to come up with games such as “scare the tutors” to keep myself interested. I do this by when I write sentences for words they think I don’t know, like vigorous (which I’ve known since I was 8), I write sentences that scare them, I just do it because it’s funny. I almost knocked a teacher off her feet by a sentence about how your skin is porous, she was blown away. Ok, well enough about Rambling on about this awful program, Huntington Learning Center, I award you a 1/10, better luck next time my friends.