Kumon
Reviews and Complaints
My child not having time
it is horrible, we love the education, but my child always get so mad at the homework. She never have time to do school work or go to her soccer practice, she just doesn"t have time to do it .
She has been begging me to quit KUMON! I have notice people who go to KUMON have time to go to the center and do their homework. We did talk to the instructor about our problem and he did said we will give my child less homework, but my child still didn't have time, so we decided to quit KUMON.
The only problem with KUMON is some of the kid get mad and they don"t like the questions on there. So I probably don"t recommend KUMON.
- How it does not benefit middle and high school students
- Homework
A Waste!
BEWARE OF CONTRACT
Please do not sign any contract with KUMON centers. Run from any center that imposes any contract for enrolling the children. If you have to sing anything, please ask if you can break it with reasonable terms. Most centers let you break the contract with a month's fee but there are some centers who will pursue the contract relentlessly. These centers torture the naive parents. At the end of the day, the contract/money is what they care about. They make you sign the contract in the name of commitments. They might guilt you to signing because you want the 'best' for your children. Please don't be naive. This program may or may not work and so always ask if you can break the contract especially if it is long-term.
Kumon's name/goodwill is destroyed by such centers. I might say that one should try this program but not with such centers and certainly not with long-term contract clauses. Parents should ALWAYS have the option to break the contract if the program not working.
Don't get sucked into the contract.
Bad first impression
The first thing I saw was a small child of 5 crying and looking for his mother in the Kumon parking lot. I told him to please take a seat with us inside the Kumon center and we would wait for his mother together.
She did come after about 5 minutes. Then we went in for the Kumon orientation. First, the Japanese Kumon owner Mr. Otsuka didn't have the skills to quiet down the room so he could start his talk.
He had to yell at us and actually sh sh us with his finger! Secondly when he got everyone's attention, his projector wasn't ready and he made us watch him while he worked at fixing the set up (a few minutes). Finally, when he started his talk he opened with how he could help the "poor or bad student" and kept using the phrase "bad student." Anyway, Kumon may have success at teaching military like discipline when it comes to study skills, but it may also smother the creative student and the one who doesn't learn from worksheets and rote. When I got my teaching credential, we were taught to use to all four modalities of learning when teaching.
I saw a few Kumon posters on the walls and lots of Kumon workbooks, a timer and reminders of how to sit. The center overall was chaotic. It sounds like something out of Asia or military school, reminded us of the Japanese atrocities in the World War. Kumon is not for me or my child.
Kumon is a great place to go if you want to turn your child into a retarded robot. Kids who are older than 5 really hate going to Kumon.
The Kumon owners made a bad first impression. The style of learning at Kumon will not flow well for my child or other children with a more creative approach to learning.
South Carlsbad Kumon Center (subway complex) - exploitation!
My daughter has developmental delays and Kumon instructor Marie promised me that they will be able to help her with her studies. Two years into it and nothing has changed.
I can understand that they were not able to help but they dragged it all along without once asking for a meeting with me. I asked for a meeting with Ms Marie after a year and told her to take my daughter to lower level. I kept paying $250/month for Math and English without anything to show. My daughter would finish her homework with writing any garbage and they would resend the same homework back to her.
They would inform the nanny about my daughter not doing the homework correctly but never bothered to call me once also about it. They were very prompt in calling me when they had problem with billing though. Now, that I have had it, I decided to cancel the classes but they are asking for 30 days notice and want to charge me for another month. Even though Ms Marie herself agreed that Sonia is not benefitting and that she also thinks it should be canceled.
Isn't this exploitation where they knew very well that my daughter is not learning but they kept on going without a peep because they were getting money out of it and now that I asked to cancel they still want to charge for another month without providing any service? How can Ms Marie be so money minded where she feels no regret and shame to continue to pretend to teach my disabled daughter for 2 years and then have the audacity to charge for extra month?
- Dishonest center owner
- Asking to charge for additional month after cancellation
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
Kumon - not for everyone
My son and daughter both atyended kumon and both seemed very frustrated with the amount of work that they were consistently given. Thia procided them with nontime for hobbies and sports which my wife and I felt to be a little excessive.
We approached the kumon instructor who told us that the amount of homework could not be reduced if we wanted our children to learn and advance through the program. We found out that the instuctor had no formal educational credentials so we pulled our two.kids out of kumon. What a waste of time and money. Why does kumon hire unqualified educators?
Simply unbelievable.
Is the kumon program a well orchestrated business scam? We want no part of kumon.
- Unqualified instructors
- Asking to charge for additional month after cancellation
- Equipment quality
Repetition to cheat and rob parents
I got my daughter into Kumon learning on recommendation of a friend. At the time I felt that my daughter had way too much time on her hands and could put it into something constructive.
At the Kumon learning center she was made to take a test and I was told that she foundation in Math and Reading was weak, so she needed to start at two grade levels below. Mind you, she is a straight A student in the 6th grade at Hamilton International Middle School. Since I did not want to disappoint the friend who recommended the Kumon learning center, I enrolled my daughter. For 5 months the teacher made her do addition and subtraction at the B level in Kumon level.
Day by day my daughter started losing interest in the work and frustration would set in doing the same boring worksheets. After 5 months she was given a test and then moved to level C she completed level C in the next 8 months but was made to repeat the same worksheets at least 3 times. When she moved to level D in Math and had reached #130 worksheet the owner of the Kumon learning center moved her back to Level B and began making her to start all over. When I saw what was happening I called for a parent meeting.
The owner played dumb and went on a total deniability offensive. I realized that the woman owning the center was dumb as a rock and had no education experience. She tried to make excuses and kept repeating some story about some Japanese old man and his son who was dumb and seemed to have been touched by an angel after repeating the same worksheets like 100 times. This woman had no idea that I was footing the bill for my daughter's tuition and she was deliberately playing mischief to keep my daughter repeating so she could make more and more money out of me.
If this Kumon learning people are reading this review, I want to tell you that Kumon learning is the baddest, dirtiest, disgusting program out there. All you Kumon peoples out there should be ashamed of yourselves at the way you rob innocent parents and cause suffering to children.
Hope you all rot in ***. To all parents, KEEP A DISTANCE FROM KUMON LEARNING, THEY ARE A SCAM.
Shame on you Kumon
I was almost deceived into signing up a contract for a $1800 Kumon Math program for my little sister. The Kumon woman told her she would only have a small amount to pay, when in reality she was being swindled.
The Kumon lady rushed her through the paperwork and harassed her to finish. My mother didn't have the money, so she charged it on her credit card which I know took a very long time to pay off when she lost her job. Once my sister started attending the center, she was made to feel like a retard by calling her names like "*** student" and "poor student" and the other rich kids were treated differently. The Kumon woman used to point my sister to the rich kids and tell her that they were "excellent students" and my sister was "plain dumb"
It is sad how this company preys on the weak and suffering who have higher hopes of bettering the lives of their children.
I must say that Kumon Math & Reading centers prey on people like my mother who may not know better. This is not a bachelors degree! They lied about the the Kumon program. The school teacher said that the program was doing more harm than any good for my sister.
This after my mother had to hear claims that Kumon was Japanese and would make my sister "excellent." Kumon should be illegal.
Such companies must have to prove that they are treating the citizens of these United States especially children with respect and not cheat people. Shame on you Kumon Math & Reading!!!!
Kumon is an Asian scam
Kumon is an Asian scam, a rip-off run by sneaky Asian women criminals. We enrolled out daughter in Kumon when she was in 3rd grade.
She was tested by the center and told that she needed to start at level 7A. At first we didn't realize what that meant, so we enrolled her. We were made to sign a contract to keep her enrolled for one year and if we decided to stop her tutoring at Kumon then we were liable to pay the balance owed on the contract. Still we decided to go ahead.
We realized to our horror that level 7A was the level of pre-schoolers. Our third grader is a straight A student. We still kept going. Once our daughter reached level 7A and completed worksheets #110-120 she was made to repeat all the worksheets starting with 7A #1-10.
This was very frustrating for our daughter and us. We were very angry and confronted to owner of the Kumon center. The owner was defensive and mouthed off curse words at us. The behavior of this Asian individual was what one could expect from an uneducated lowlife criminal not an educator.
We stopped out daughter from the center. We were threatened with a lawsuit for non-payment of the balance payment of the contract. We decided to face it and deal with it when it came to that. For now, we were not going to let our daughter suffer any more.
From experience, Kumon is a not an education program worth its salt.
It is a scam meant to cheat unsuspecting immigrants who think that it will do wonders only to see that they are systematically being robbed every month by Kumon. This is not just our opinion but the opinion of other parents we know who have suffered at the hands of the asian criminals called Kumon who under the guise of tutoring in Math & Reading are out to cheat parents.
Kumon - Customer Care Review
This place is a Dump
We had signed up our children at Kumon in South Elgin, IL that's located at 454 Redington Dr but quit within months. The center has no secure Sign In or Sign Out system, just a revolving door for anyone to pick up your child.
Too often I would come in and there is no one attending. The phone lines constantly ring, no VM service available. The Kumon program is nonsense rote worksheets and nothing else. Our children were frustrated.
The staff has NO certified training to even educate your children. Anyone can get a job here, just call. The Director/Owner is very rude and suggested that my expectations were too high.
So if you want your child to be actually Learning Math and Reading, Safe & Secure, then don't Come Here! Disaster Zone!!
Short Review on March&nbs-04:00;14,&nbs-04:00;2017
Kumon not for everyone
I did Kumon for a few months when I was young. I think it's a good supplement to the stuff learnt at school, good practice for things that I had already learnt.
The booklets do come with instructions that aim to do the teaching but I think they weren't adequate for a proper understanding of the subject. Never been a fan of tutoring myself. Depending on the tutoring college in question, most of the ones I"ve attended are very similar to school and try to cover the 30 hours of schooling in 3.
Didn't find it very useful at all. If you have the time, I think the better idea is to just buy some text books and go through them with your kid yourself.
Kumon math & reading was a perverted experience
I signed up to have our son tutored in math and reading at the Kumon Westend centre in Hamilton, Ontario since he got into Advanced Math program in middle school. The owner Nicole Smith gave us the long sales speech about how long she had been in Hamilton since a few years and had owned other centres and what she could do for us. I decided to commit despite never having heard of this Kumon program from Japan.
Then after nearly a year of weekly visits driving all the way from Dundas (through the bad winter here in Hamilton), I was in for a shock. My son failed the the third period. Seeing the disappointing results, he had to quit Kumon.
All along, not once did the owner bother to sit down with me to discuss his progress. I could not believe it. Kumon Math & Reading was a complete waste of our time and his. Later, from his school teacher I found out that the Kumon owner Nicole Smith has no teaching credentials whatsoever and just a local charlatan who dishonestly claimed to have special teaching knowledge and skills in math and reading.
Moreover, hindsight being 20/20, my son constantly complained that the owner Nicole Smith never showed interest in any of the students studying at the centre. He used to complain that he was pretty much left to his own at the place. I also noticed that the staff at the centre were merely local high school kids. Every now and then I saw completely new staff at the centre. I should have gotten the hint then.
As a single mom, I am angry and can't believe that I am still having to pay $3,000 in credit card bills for the tuition paid. My experience is that Kumon is a ripoff. I would never go there again, or even recommend anyone going there. The Kumon concept is nothing but a perverted experience. If anyone has the misfortune of visiting the Kumon centre in Hamilton Westend be prepared to be served a hot plate of cockamamie from the owner Nicole Smith. If I had it to do over, I would have gotten a private tutor to help my son.
Kumon - Teacher Review
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The program is bad, teachers are worse. Too many lies by teachers.
The teachers assistants at Kumon are mostly high school boys who try to prey on little girls at the Kumon center.
Kumon center must be investigated. Too many scandals are happening at our Kumon center.