I do not recommend this program, especially for families seeking consistent support for children…read morewith ADHD. My son started off with a strong foundation in this program, and for the first couple of months, things felt really promising. But after the holidays, everything fell apart. We were unassigned from a tutor and left waiting on one teacher's return, while the interim tutor had no understanding of my son's needs and just gave him random, unstructured exercises. There was no communication, no continuity, and no accountability. The only meeting we had was one that I had to chase down and schedule. At that meeting, I was told we'd receive a follow-up by the end of March. It's now almost the end of April. I followed up again and was told someone would reach out. No one did. What's most frustrating is that we were sold a program that included regular performance check-ins, progress updates, and personalized support tailored to my son's executive functioning challenges. We completed all the onboarding and surveys with that in mind. None of that actually happened. The gap between what we were promised and what we received is massive, and this is after paying thousands of dollars each month. We were sold a dream: a well-rounded, thoughtful, and attentive program. What we got was inconsistency, poor communication, and a lack of care during a time my son genuinely needed reliable support. Parents, please be cautious. If you're looking for structure, follow-through, and actual accountability, I would not recommend working with this business.

Warning! Something has significantly changed with this company, and I am warning families to be…read morecareful with signing up for automatic payments or subscriptions. After cancelling our subscription, due to the issues listed below, we were told the payment would be refunded. Instead, they billed the next session to our credit card. After multiple attempts to reach someone with the authority to refund both payments, I finally called the credit card company to dispute and stop payment. Again, with many many emails and unreturned phone calls, even to the CEOs, the bank was able to settle the dispute after almost 6 months. The owners may be Harvard Grads, but something does not feel quite right, and they do not seem to be active in the business. After a year of sessions, I asked for an assessment of our daughter's progress. We received what seemed like a lot of "mumbo jumbo" of data and words, without evidence of progress that we could track. Within a week following the assessment, our daughter's tutor, with whom she had built a good relationship, was let go. With no notice, she was assigned a new tutor, and the only time slot they could offer was late Friday evening. We decided it was not a substantial value, so we cancelled. Eventually the site closed.

Our daughter studied classical guitar under Mike for multiple years. It's incredible to see how…read moreshe progressed over the years. Mike's teaching style is such that you can definitely see a clear progression of where the student is and where they're going. Students are also taught how to properly practice, with techniques to learn the ideal way to build up skills required for the current song being worked on. There are multiple yearly recitals that give students a chance to showcase their skills and hear what students at a higher level are able to accomplish. Highly recommend Mike to anyone!

I wish Michael could put more passion into his teaching. When we first signed up, his policy…read moreincluded recitals and makeup scheduling. However, over the 4 years my kid was with him, he had only 1 recital. Ever since Covid, he completely stopped doing recitals, and stopped offering any makeups. We opted to pay extra charge to get an online makeup, he reluctantly accepted and scheduled it at a noon. It was unfortunate that my kid went to have lunch at the time and missed the alarm he set for the makeup. Since it's an online session, Michael could have easily called us, instead he just let the time pass and my kid missed the makeup. I don't mind people charging money for their time or overtime, however, I feel frustrated with a teacher that shows no empathy with his student and could not care less when his student misses a class.

As the founder of Academics Drive, I am a big fan of this business! Emma does her best to meet…read morefamilies and especially students where they are. She comes to your home, does a free initial evaluation/meet and greet to get a sense of the family and child. What your child needs to develop, she will cater the lessons towards. She has established systems to encourage children. Her end goal is for students to love and appreciate learning, which comes naturally as she connects with children and provides texts and material where there will be high interest. She creates meaningful assignments that engage the whole child.

This review is about Angela Sun's college counselling abilities. Our experience was exactly the…read moreopposite of what's written here and I would give negative stars if I could !! She was an absolute nightmare to deal with and has zero emotional intelligence or tact to deal with young teens !! She preys on parent's weaknesses and has clearly understood parents would do anything for their children as long as she says things like she got admission into MIT, Ivy's and self proclaims that she is the absolute best college consultant who will make your child write the absolute best essays he can ever write !! (I am paraphrasing it but she said something like that to me in our first meeting !). She made it amply clear even before I met for the first time that all she cares about is money and nothing else ! She charged me $300 per hr saying it's "the weekend rate" - whatever that means (although her website only mentions 250 per hr ). She was laser focused on the money in our conversations and showed zero interest in knowing my child before or after the meeting. Her website says parents will get a detailed report within 24 hrs of the first meeting, and we received no such report. The first meeting was a complete disaster. She was so rude (and please don't say she is strict/tough /good etc). No - she was plain rude and not good as a counselor !! My son was so scared of her that after a point stopped answering even basic questions ! She gave as little info as possible in the session and made it laborious by asking my son to type out literally every word that came out of her mouth (all of it was just general info and nothing anyone wouldn't know about college admissions)! Despite all these negative signals, I still tried to go ahead with scheduling a few more sessions, because believe it or not, my son insisted he wanted to try her a bit more before giving up ! I wanted to understand how many sessions my son would need and in her response she had the audacity to say my child was a "non high functioning" kid and hence would probably need many sessions (being vague and open ended of course to milk as much money as possible from me) ! The "genius" in her, inferred all this about my son from just the 1 hr meeting !! Not to brag - Honestly, my child is in a highly specialized gifted track at school and elsewhere and in fact the very reason I was looking for a counselor so early on was to make sure I give him all the advantages possible and guide him using the best counselors ! She quoted a ridiculous number of hours at the rate of $300 per hr and I told her , her website states she will only need 3-4 sessions for coming up with a 4 year plan and her response was "website is outdated " !!! (can you believe that ??) Parents, please be careful when choosing a counselor. Please make sure the counselor has the right emotional intelligence, credentials , experience to deal with your child in this vulnerable yet important stage of their life. Please don't select a counselor based purely on 5 star online reviews or what these counselors say they achieved for themselves. If in your initial interactions you detect the counselor's main focus is money, and not your child or if the counselor is rude, evasive about answering your questions , please take these red flags seriously and run miles away from her/him ! I am very thankful that I was able to detect this problem early on and not expose my child to a horrible 4 year counselling experience !

I agree with S A 's review. Not great at emotional intelligence with teens. I think she's got a…read moremethod and that works for some kids, she isn't into customizing for how the child learns. I am sharing that his score went down a full 100 points after - full 3 months of tutoring with her. Worst yet when we shared this news she never responded to us again.

My daughter worked with Nicole for a few months on Algebra 1 and really liked her. My daughter…read moresays, "She's really really good. She's really really nice too." Also, Amadeus is so understanding and kind.

It was amazing to see Amadeus Ciok and my son working very  hard together to improve the grade in…read morea short time, with only a test left before the final. At first, my son was skeptical about working with a tutor, but after the 1st evaluation session, he wanted to continue.  He was very comfortable working with Amadeus due to his patience and easy-to-understand way of teaching, My friend's daughter also got help from him and they were happy about the final grade. I highly recommend him for one-to-one tutoring service.

My daughter takes vocal classes and she's singing many classic Italian, French and German songs…read more Our vocal teacher recommended that she could learn any or all of the 3 foreign languages to best understand and pronounce the songs. Plus learning a foreign language helps with cognitive development. So I thought why not? It's common for Europeans to speak multiple foreign languages. So through friend's referral, I found Marco Polo Kids, a non profit org. I love their concept of combining in person and online classes. Language like any learning, but more so, requires consistent efforts. In person 1-on-1 lessons are effective but can get pricy, even though their in person classes are very reasonably priced already! We scheduled a trial class for $25, which is indeed no risk. Language Coach Simona came to our house, and my daughter (7-yr old) loved her first Italian class so much, I decided to purchase a 30 In person package and 30 online package. Marco Polo Kids Education Consultant (their customer service) recommended that since my daughter has 0 Italian experience, we do twice a week in person classes at the beginning for 1-2 months, then transition to once a week in person class and 2 mini online sessions. Simona is the best! She has a PhD in Italy with years of teaching experience. Her husband got a job in the US, so she followed him. She's soooo patient and kids friendly. She sends an email to me summarizing each class. I'm confident that my daughter can speak basic fluent Italian in 6 months. It's amazing how quickly my daughter learned. I was shocked at how much she remembered the previous class during the review in the next class. I know as her mother, she didn't even study in between 2 classes due to other school commitments. It confirmed that it's the right decision to learn a foreign language early on. It would be "a bit" harder for us adults for sure :-) And I'm so glad that my friend recommended Marco Polo Kids. I'll be recommending them to other parents!

Had my plane serviced there a couple of times in the past but this one was different…read more I was not in town and I emailed what had to be done with my plane in a Watsonville hangar nearby. It took three weeks AFTER the promised start date to get me plane into their shop. During that time there was no communication from UFS. I came by 4 weeks later and the airplane was still opened up with the tank (for the sender unit to be replaced) in pretty bad shape (curled up). Terry said that's "normal". The finally finished my plane (had to give them an ultimatum) to do it. Noone was there to push my and out and lonely mechanic tried to help me... When I got to my destination, 45 minutes away, when putting her into my hangar, j noticed the bottom cowling "sort of loose", just hanging there?? Upon further inspection, I discovered that the whole right front AND the center bottom cowling hadn't been secured, screws just "hanging" there. I could have lost that cowling in flight, shearing off my landing gear or at least blocking it. I immediately texted/emailed Ashley about this and she responded "we'll look into it" and let you know. I demanded in a follow up email to find out about the mechanic that failed to secure my plane. Dead silence solar after several prompts by me to their phone number and their email. Moral of the story? Don't service your plane at United Flight Services, you might not survive the flight afterwards. I got lucky, not everyone will be if that shop doesn't institute a rigorous quality safety program Moving on, NEVER HFS ever again.

A plus for mechanics! One star for Biannual service. Buyer beware! I called for a flight review and…read moregot a hold of a CFI thru texting. It was a clear text that I needed my Flight Review updated, nothing more. I did all the procedure turns, etc. plus charged half an hour ground. After the flight with some fair criticism, he decided the ground time would be postponed for the next day. The next day over the phone, he decided it wasn't a flight review and I needed to repeat the flight with a "pass or fail" requirements!!!??? So, after spending over $300, it was just a bust and waste of my time & $$$. I basically got screwed and management never called back to resolve this issue. Shame on you! Going to Specialized..better reviews!

As my Daughters get older they're eager to learn about how to save more money, credit, savings &…read morebudgeting. I recently came across Moneysprouts Empowerment & let me just say it was one of the best decisions I could have made for my family. It was an amazing experience. I'm learning how to guide my daughters with their curious minds of wanting to learn financial stability. This will give me the tool's I need to navigate them the correct way how to save money effectively, create a budget, track their spending, set savings goals, and cut unnecessary expenses. For my daughter she always been curious about making money & saving so I'm happy there's Moneysprouts Empowerment to guide her & plant that seed for her. I highly recommend Moneysprouts Empowerment. I'm happy I took the time to receive more knowledge about guiding my daughter in the right direction. Thank you again Moneysprouts Empowerment.