A Foot In The Door For Real Teaching - Anonymous employee Huntington Learning Centers Employee Review

If you already know which age group you work best with, you will still have to work with EVERYONE. Let's just put it this way - someone who is good with toddlers won't work well with teens, and vice versa. With the low wages and number of hours, the job won't pay your bills on its own. A center might charge a parent $80 for an hour of math tutoring; the tutor who works with the child *might* see $10 of that. I mentioned in the pros about not having to deal with angry parents, but on the flip side of that, you are actually prohibited from communicating with parents in any way. The curriculum is extremely outdated (like 70's and 80's) and the centers have no interest in updating it. Worst of all, my particular center had (and still has, so I hear) money issues and has repeatedly failed to pay employees on time. Last I heard they were officially one month behind in getting paychecks out. One day I got a voicemail instructing me to find my pay, in cash, in the director's desk...WTF?