got yelled at many times because i didn't understand the work they gave me, some random kid kept pooping on the bathroom floor. one of the tutors named steve is pretty cool tho read more

Brain Child Education Center - brainchild - Educational Services Near Me - San Jose, California

Mom forced me to go and it sucked so much I can't explain it. They're so strict and even though it s family business, 100 word paragraph and 18 pages of ELA homework is torture. Don't recommend it's really bad. read more

Back in elementary, I was briefly enrolled in Brain Child to bring up my English scores in school. I had a pretty decent instructor and just completed what I was told to do at the time without complaints. HOWEVER, In 2017, I began my senior year of high school and entered the process of applying to colleges. What I needed at the time was a qualified tutor to help me raise my SAT score. My dad and I came to discuss with SHERRY in hopes of gaining Brain Child's support. She really had the audacity to shut us down and tell us that not even (school name that I won't mention but is notorious in her opinion) would accept me. I was told that my score would not get me anywhere in college or life and that I would never succeed. Jokes on her I am here today as a Purdue graduate to prove her wrong about my ability to get into a four year. HOW COMICAL. read more

My parents enrolled me at Brain Child from 7th grade through 11th grade. I actually learned a decent amount from their packets during the first two years. This made me feel confident with my school assignment. Everything was fine until I started SAT prep course with Jonathan (owner). He is the worst instructor. Not only was he incompetent in teaching, he also enjoyed putting students down. I scored below a 1200 on a practice test. Jonathan sat me down and told me that I am not going to get into any college with that score and will fail in life. Well, I graduated from a UC and went on to get a Master's degree in nursing. I am a successful, contributing member of society, and have a salary that provides for me and my family to live in our house in Silicon Valley. Take that Jonathan. read more

PARENTS AND CHILDREN!! Read the reviews before putting up your child in this place, it is like hell. I had started to go to this place to get better grades on my math and english, but Sherry is by far the most rudest yet sick tutor I have ever met. I have been going there for 2 years and is now graduating from Elementary. She was so nice at first and now she is just rude. I could tell she always favors the toddlers/younger kids than older kids. I would love to leave this place and go somewhere else better, but I can't because I know Sherry would just complain to my parents that I have been doing bad throughout the years in brainchild. She is so sick and such a liar. But the other tutors here have improved their personality, Jonathan has improved his personality now and is more calm than before. Steve is a cool guy and I like him, he is a good english teacher and is also very helpful and funny. But Sherry is the worst and she has to realize that the things she is doing is very wrong and just by yelling at them and bringing them down is not going to do anything, yet it will make them feel worse and fail the packets. So parents/guardians, do not enroll your child to this place, it can make your child mentally ill and they CAN have a possibility of going into depression due to how the place treats them. Thank you for reading. read more

To future parents and guardians do not and I repeat DO NOT enroll our children in Brain Child under any circumstances, despite the "good things" u hear about this place from others. I spent 4 years at this place and I can honestly say that it wasn't the best place to be. I was there for 5-6 days a week and sometimes even 7 days because of the disgusting and untrue lies Sherry (the owner) told my mother. Sherry would repeatedly say that I wasn't trying and I was lazy and at some point hopeless because I made a lot of mistakes on packets THAT DO NOT CORRELATE WITH MY SCHOOL'S MATH WORK. Sherry would always make me and other kids look stupid and awful in front of our parents when in reality, it's just Sherry's messed up way of trying to have our parents be furious with us and make us stay with Sherry in hopes that she'd be able to not only better our school grades, but also better our behavior. Most of these reviews are pretty standard to my experiences, but I'm also gonna share some of my personal experiences, hopefully, to shed some light in this dark place. Whenever a kid would talk when they weren't supposed to Sherry would yell at them and make them face the wall, FRICKIN FACE THE WALL. As people are walking into the center, people can visibly see the person facing the wall and it's probably got some people thinking "Well why didn't parents see it", well Sherry attempts to hide this unruly and unfit punishment from their parents, would you as a parent or guardian want your child to come to a place where they should be learning and getting help, only to be punished with facing a wall and getting humiliated??? I was forced to face the wall because I would ask my sister for something as simple as a pencil. Sherry would also threaten us with a phone call to our parents if we forgot our work, talked too much, or tried to defend ourselves. She even threatened to call up this one boy's parents to tell them to send him back to Taiwan LIKE LADY ARE U OUT OF YOUR GODDAMN MIND WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU???? I used to be deathly afraid of Sherry, but looking back I should've stood up to her and not been afraid because all she is doing is sitting her obese ass in her chair thinking she rules the world because she owns one measly company that isn't doing so well because of the bad things they do. Another key to my trauma at this place: Jonathan. Every Monday and Thursday was always reserved for just after school and homework help, and I was unfortunately forced to go on these days as well, and on these specific days Sherry stayed home (THANK GOD) but thats not where the story ends, one day a Thursday one of the other kid's bubbles went missing and he kept whining and crying which made Jonathan very irritated and then proceeded to storm into the room I was in and flip a chair WHILE I WAS RIGHT UNDERNEATH THE FLIPPED CHAIR. Not only did he endanger one of these students that MY PARENTS entrusted to him, but he also is unfit into taking care of children because he didn't handle that situation well enough, coming from someone that now works with kids part-time. This experience not only scarred me but made me very afraid of Jonathan for a while to the point where I'd tremble if he made any sudden moves around me. To finish off this review I'd also like to talk about the teachers specifically Steve, i have a twin sister that also had the misfortune of going through 4 years of pain and torture, Steve would also compare me and her saying shes the "nice angel" twin while I'm the "mean devil" twin-like that's messed up, BUT THE NEXT PART IS BEYOND MESSED UP. One day a new student came in, she was a very cute wide-eyed girl and I was being friendly and said hi to her, my sister did the same and Steve had the sheer audacity to say "Oh this is (my twin's name) the super nice angel twin and next to her is (my name) the mean devil twin. LIKE WHO TF DOES THAT? I'm sorry if this is long, but I just had a lot to say about this place and I want to save any future enrollments from going through what I did and maybe worse to please reconsider. Thank you for making it to the end. read more

You remember your childhood trauma more than good memories. I have gone on to do great things in life but it also required me to face my trauma first. First off Sherry is not a great teacher but is a good businesswoman. She profits off of making children feel stupid. Children need to learn from their mistakes and not be shamed for failing. No matter how much tutoring my parent put me in, I always thought I was stupid. This caused a chain reaction of almost failing high school, drug abuse, and going to the wrong crowd of people for support. I grew up in a lower-income area where violence was normal but moved to the middle class. Today most of my friends are in jail for tons of crimes which include murder. Children and teens will go to do other things when they don't have a support system at home. You making me feel stupid prevented me from doing sports or anything. This is what led me to be rebellious during my teen years. I couldn't keep up with school due to my mentality at the time that Sherry imposed on me. Over time, I met people who were able to change it by teaching me to embrace my failure. Today I go to College while working full-time at a startup company. This also makes me the highest-earning student. Let's just say I make more than the average California High School teacher. Sherry if you see this, please don't ever open another tutoring center and if you're dead rest in piss. You assume every student learns the same and when you can't teach them, they are automatically mentally impaired to you. Although I didn't have the best childhood, I have a great life today. read more

if I could give this place negative stars I would. I went to this place in second grade and I will let you guys know that I am a first year in college. I have so many terrible memories about this place. during my time at brain child I remember sherry would make the kids face the wall if they were misbehaving or if they did anything wrong. I believe almost everyone faced the wall at some point. I remember there would be writing on the wall and it would say WALL OF SHAME. like everyone know it was THAT wall. I also remember being so hungry almost starving and sherry told me that I couldn't eat there and it was against the rules. when I went home to tell my mom that I was so hungry she confronted sherry and sherry looked at me and proceeded to tell me that I could bring a snack if I wanted. I was in disbelief. this was the same lady that confiscated my snack, told me that I couldn't eat, and made me face the wall. now she was telling me I could bring a snack??? there have been so many terrible memories from this place... I have been to many different tutoring places from kumon, mma, and personal private tutors but by far Brain Child ranked the worst. my sad would joke around and call this place brain wash instead of brain child and he was right. do not send your kids here. read more

Sherry the owner/manager is by far the rudest. Yells at kids for not completing an assignment and telling them they're going to fail in life. Nothing good to say about this place read more

This place is not that bad. Sherry although strict but she made kids do their work. It is a husband & wife shop with additional tutors. Overall the my kids like this place, they get to learn ahead of school curriculum. We have been there a few years already. read more

before any parent enrolls their kid into this center, lemme give u my input as a student who has been there for 4 years. those 4 years of my life were really traumatizing. when i first enrolled, sherry was nice, but after a month of being there, that is when things got worse. she would put me down by saying "you will fail in life", and the other reviews are pretty accurate on what i went through. also, i really question their teaching skills. sherry and jonathan are both never helpful to me or anyone in the center. they both always tell me to do it myself when i dont know how to do it. like dude?? thats why i asked u to help me. later when i get everything wrong, they get upset with me and tell me i should of asked. they are both lazy and manipulators. when they would get upset wit people that would talk, they would sometimes blame me when i did nothing wrong and then tell my mom. they would tell her that i was being a bad kid, which wasnt even true. bro like they are both so desperate to the point where they would tell my mom lies abt me. this center jus drained me mentally because of the packets they gave me. i had other school work to do and they knew that since i went everyday. when i would tell them i didn't have time to complete it, they would say that i was busy fooling around, especially sherry. dude i hate that mf. she would literally drain my soul. she would put me down all the time to the point where i would cry while doing her lame packets. im happy that i stopped going to her and as of now im helping everyone else right now. if u think about going, DONT! u are going to waste ur money. sherry is absolutely disgusting and sick. she always blames ppl without even knowing the truth. one more thing to add, she even goes for the way u look and thats beyond messed up. she called me a man and said i dressed like a boy. she is there to teach kids not tear them down. i hope this woman realizes what she is doing is wrong. anyways i suggest u all not to go to her because she will ruin u. read more