January 2023 by A R.
We spent $24,000 to send our child here for one year.Five stars for the tutors themselves, they are decent people, but they are mistreated and underpaid. See Glassdoor.com for proof of this. I truly feel sorry for the actual tutors.Here's how it went from the beginning to the end:During the sales pitch, they introduce tutors called "Clinicians". Sounds official, right?So what training/accreditation do these "Clinicians" have? Do they go to postgraduate school for 2 or 3 years and obtain a teaching credential? If only.A high school diploma and two weeks (two weeks! Employees at call centers get more training than that. Two weeks of slipshod training at Lindamood Bell makes you a "Clinician".My wife and I really should have known better, after their hard sell first meeting. It was reminiscent of a time share sales pitch.The pitch is very hard sell, but very seductive, they break open binders of data and talk a great game.Once you enroll, there is absolutely no follow through. The poor tutors are too stressed, overworked and underpaid, as mentioned. The facility in the front is beautiful. When you enroll, and your child actually gets into the back of the facility where all the "schooling" takes place, it's dirty, with cheap, rickety furniture, stained walls. But we were willing to overlook all that at first if our son actually receive the kind of education they promised.So what of the "education"? You could do this for free. It was just like free curriculum you could download from a wide variety of sources. It was so bland, generic, uninspired. It seemed like watered down high school curriculum.Save yourself a lot of grief and seek the wide variety of curriculum available online for special needs kids for 1% of what you would waste here.So, to wrap up, $24,000 later, after my son wasted an year here, in this pseudo-school. My son even complained that he did not enjoy it, didn't learn anything of value (Their "Economics" curriculum was clearly downloaded from some generic site). There were other special needs kids with antisocial behavior, and that's fine, but Linda Mood Bell allows those kids to run rampant and interfere/pester other students. It was a zoo some days.There were not very many students at all, and I can see why.
