Mitch Fogelman

Review of Success Tutoring

The problem: My daughter's 6th grade math teacher ...

The problem: My daughter's 6th grade math teacher had embraced "common core" methodology so completely that there was little to no actual teaching in the class. The students were left to figure out the curriculum more or less by themselves. Even though my daughter had maintained an "A" in the class through the first 3 quarters of the school year, my wife and I became concerned that our daughter was not receiving instruction sufficient to prepare her for future math courses. Our daughter was becoming increasingly more frustrated with her teacher and her class and the lack of instruction & it was clear to us that if we did not take action, her grade was likely to go down over the final quarter of the school year.

The solution: One of our daughter's soccer teammates had been enrolled at Success Tutoring and very highly recommended Success to us to help our daughter with her math situation. We met with the very experienced, organized, knowledgable & congenial folks in charge at Success and were very impressed with their understanding of our situation, their assessment of our daughter's abilities and needs & their recommendation of a tutor to assist our daughter. We signed our daughter up for 10 weeks of tutoring - enough to get her to the end of the school year. Each week our daughter happily attended her one hour tutoring sessions, knowing generally what she wanted to review with her tutor. After each session, she had only very positive things to say about her tutor and his effectiveness in teaching her what her math teacher did not. In other words, our daughter had an extremely POSITIVE experience with her tutor. And she has retained her "A" in her math class. The final is in a few days and she feels very prepared.

Recommendation: I would happily, unequivocally & strongly recommend Success Tutoring to any family with a need for outside assistance with any of very wide variety of subjects. We are thrilled and relieved to know that if / when a situation arises in the future where either of our kids need academic assistance, we can turn to Success Tutoring for guaranteed help. Like all institutions, public schools are flawed, and situations requiring outside assistance do arise from time to time. We are thankful & reassured that when such situations do arise, Success Tutoring will be there for us!