I am giving one star because of the teacher, who was excellent. I was very dissatisfied with every other aspect of my experience as I shall describe, most likely in painful detail for most of you.
As a day care provider for the past 20 years, I am required by law to take a recertification class for CPR every other year. I have done this so many times, My schedule is that I have to take it between January and March of each year. Every class has an average of 10 students who each have to pay $70 to spend a whole day going over material.
The day that I went was in January and was quite cold outside. However the room was was freezing as well. It was 52 degrees. When I asked the instructor whether they had any heat. she just laughed and said "That's so funny/." I was surprised that no effort was made to turn any heat on in the room. As we sat, none of us could take off any of our coats and those that had hoods on their coats soon had them around their faces and we had to hold our hands against our bodies to keep them warm. While others may be more timid, I am not one to suffer in silence and I repeatedly complained about the temperature. Finally the other students felt comfortable enough to join me in the complaints as well.
We were so cold we could not even attempt to enjoy the cheap dollar store cookies and coffee provided as refreshments. I am a frequent visitor to the dollar stores so I immediately recognized the brands. I sipped at two cups of coffee,even though I didn't like it, just to try to warm up by drinking something hot and holding it in my hands.
At one point, someone asked to let us at least open the curtains so that the sun could come through but we were told it could not be done, until one of the students got up and did it herself.
The instructor did finally call someone to adjust or fix the heater but it was around noon before we had teat.
Again the teacher's covering of the subject matter is not the issue in this review, it is the environment that I had a problem with and I am sure most other people did as well. And the fact that they were unwilling to spend even $5 per person on us for decent refreshments. The environment was so hostile due to the temperature, that I caught a cold and had to take the following Monday off work because I was too sick to attend to my job.
I hope that the next time I have to take this class, the school will seriously take into consideration the comfort of the students. read more