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Complaint Review: Sylvan Learning Center - South Portland Maine
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Sylvan Learning Center
20 Atlantic Place South Portland, 04074 Maine, U.S.A.
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Sylvan Learning Center ripoff Fired because I cared South Portland Maine
Today I was dismissed (by phone) from Sylvan Learning Center as a math tutor. Grounds for dismissal were that I asked too many questions about what materials I should be using for my students. The Center does not allow for too much prep time ( it has to be done on your own time). Each of the three students has a thick notebook from which to pull lessons. Several texts/workbooks are used for follow up lessons. Very little active teaching is done due to time management issues as each of the students has an individualized program.
I have been involved in education as a special educator for twenty-seven years and have annually received high marks for my teaching. I took this job not for the $11 per hour but for the joy of teaching. I truly feel that students (and parents) would be better served by hiring a private tutor in order to gain a far more qualitative one-on-one experience. I would strongly urge anyone who is considering placing their child in the above program to weigh other options. The profit motive is the bottom line for the Sylvan Learning Center.
John
Scarborough, Maine
U.S.A.
I have been involved in education as a special educator for twenty-seven years and have annually received high marks for my teaching. I took this job not for the $11 per hour but for the joy of teaching. I truly feel that students (and parents) would be better served by hiring a private tutor in order to gain a far more qualitative one-on-one experience. I would strongly urge anyone who is considering placing their child in the above program to weigh other options. The profit motive is the bottom line for the Sylvan Learning Center.
John
Scarborough, Maine
U.S.A.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
Mary
South Portland,Maine,
U.S.A.
Fired in South Portland
#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, February 24, 2009
I am Mary Whited, the owner of the South Portland Sylvan Learning. I take pride in the commitment of our in-center teachers, and our staff and students are treated like family. As Sylvan celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2009, we have helped thousands of Maine students develop the skills, habits and attitudes needed for lifelong success. Although I am saddened by your post, I hope that you will contact me at 773-6424 to discuss your concerns. Mary
Lynn
Clyde,Texas,
U.S.A.
Exactly Right
#3UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, October 09, 2008
I feel sorry for anyone sucked into the Sylvan scam. It's a system proven not to work, the instruction is NOT one-on-one as they claim, it's an all-out waste of money. Individuals would be far better served to hire a private tutor. Teachers looking to make a little extra cash would be far better served doing private tutoring. Sylvan is a real joke.
Karl Euler
Iowa City,Iowa,
U.S.A.
All The Comments From Former Workers Are Dead On
#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Tue, November 20, 2007
Being a former worker at Sylvan, I know everything, and understand, what former employees are saying about the company. It is a rip off, the testing is a scam, teaching students to actually learn is discouraged ( and you can be fired for doing this, unless you sell out and take Sylvan's advice on how to teach, you know the keep the kids dumb so we can make money method ), the teachers are only paid 10 bucks an hour when on average Sylvan is making upwards of 150 per table, Sylvan is using ancient textbooks and workbooks that couldn't possibly account for the low pay that the teachers are getting, the Sylvan corp. discourages center directors from spending money to train teachers instead they expect the money to be spent putting asses in the seats, Sylvan goes out of its way to pay its workers as little as possible, AND FINALLY yes the job is an insult to anyone that went to school for over 5 years. Overall, Sylvan is a joke and a scam and I don't have a probably telling anyone that will listen. Oh yeah and one more thing, why would so many former employees that have never worked together or at the same location, be saying so many similar things?????? I don't think you need to enroll at Sylvan to figure that one out......
