C2 Education Reviews

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Conflicting SOP guidelines. When process and procedure change it seems to get lost going through the channels. Also, marketing needs to be more focused on a local level. The broad marketing is a good start but understanding the communities that the centers are in is imperative.

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Can be at time a bit of a meat grinder.

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I'm not allowed to tell students certain things, like if I'm a new tutor. It's because Center Directors are afraid of scaring students away from C2 Education. It's so hush-hush sometimes and I'm annoyed at this particular type of secrecy. They guessed I was new, anyway.

Though it's a more respectable and altruistic job, there are no benefits in sight for part-timers, and tutors often have other part-time jobs or are fresh college grads.

Not everyone will care as much about teaching as you do. There is a strong focus on profit and test results because it's the foundation of this business model.

C2 Education's curriculum is questionable and all the teacher resources are stored in tens to sift through for answer keys. Not every answer key has an explanation guide and some answers were even crossed out by past tutors. What madness is this?

A student and I couldn't justify one question and answer in the SAT answer guide. It didn't make sense. The question and the answer did not align properly. It must have been a typo. Other tutors put up with this nonsense and we all just grin and bear it.

The new teacher training module neglects to teach you how to manage and tutor students requiring vast differentiation and special services, like students with autism.

Some students don't show up consistently and consequently lose out on effective tutoring. There's no way around this, but you as the tutor may not be able to demonstrate effectiveness if they wait two weeks or more between tutoring sessions.

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They just hire people. You barely have enough students to keep one person busy, and their solution is to hire another one, split the students, and pay you less.

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- Lesson preparation time is a little too short if you have a lot of students to tutor that day

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Shift flexibility was necessary - I sometimes came in to find I'd been scheduled for two more slots (+4 hours) than I'd prepared for, which caused some friction.

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They won't give you a full 40 hour work period but be close to it, like 38 or so.

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Sometimes had to tutor kids in subjects/areas you were unprepared for.

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Hours are hard to be sustainable for too long

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- You won't know your schedule for the next day until the morning of because of their 12-hour policy
- The hours are long since the center is open past 9pm
- Underpaid... especially because you're teaching 3 students
- They lure you in by promising a salary boost after 6 months, which never happened for me
- The employee discount is useless if you don't have kids/grandchildren