iCUBE was overall a very bad experience.
I enrolled my son and daughter for both reading and math.
Reading was a total waste. They focused on grammar (collective nouns, verb tenses, etc); these were things that were not even on the curriculum. Time could have been spend on reading comprehension as well as essay writing. My daughter in middle school was mainly quizzed on SAT/ACT words.
Math was much better, but not good enough. Binders were given to do work in, and my daughter claims they didn't give checkpoints or due dates, leaving her very behind. She admitted zoning out more than once, and found in difficult to find motivation for doing her work. With checkpoints and such, she would have at least been pushed to finish. The teachers explained things okay, but they preferred helping you with their activities over the homework that you were struggling with.
Last, but not least, my biggest pet peeve was the newsletters and spam. Every week, they would send us a letter, but the thing was, it was filled with grammar mistakes. Yikes. This program was supposed to help my children with reading, but basic capitalization rules and structure was ignored by the owner.
In general, the program was very expensive and unnecessary. My children's grades slightly plummeted. I would advise the staff to rework their curriculum and offer different types of classes, depending on what you're working on school. For example, you could pick geometry for math and ACT/SAT material for reading. read more