I spent 4 years at this school and had great benefits, great relationships and much more…read more A family environment with great opportunities for students and teachers. I highly recommend it as an English school.

Nice facility, good environment for test-taking. Staff are friendly and helpful. Environment is…read morequiet with no distractions. Location is convenient.

Over the past 5 years, I have tried several language schools in my quest to learn Spanish. The…read moreother schools are exclusively "online teaching" and have registration systems that are difficult to work with and require questionable security commitments. I was hacked because of one of these exposures. With Spanish Language Center, you contact them, find a lesson time and teacher that meets your needs, show up and get a great person to person lesson. Payment takes place at the first lesson... in person! The owner, Luz Kutchins in the author of a complete course for Spanish Learning. Spanish Language Center is "Numero Uno"!

There is no pricing on their website so I followed their contact page for an email. I asked for…read morepricing via email. Luz replied via email and asked for my phone number but I said I'm not available by phone. Please email me pricing. She then proceeded to call me multiple times even though I continued to ask for an email from her. I'm at work all day and can't receive calls. A customer's requests should be respected. I've had to block her calls. I won't be using this service. Pricing should be listed on the site. It shouldn't be this hard. I can only assume it's expensive an out of my budget.

As a native Cantonese speaker, it is difficult to nurture the language and heritage in San Diego…read more We looked around and found CSSD when our child turned 4. Our hopes were (1) to connect with other Cantonese speakers in the community and foster a social/cultural context for using Cantonese, (2) foster Chinese literacy. Going on Year 3 with CSSD, Ms. Cassandra and her school team have been proactive in seeking family feedback and enhancing instruction. Every Saturday in Cantonese class, the children learn in a non-traditional format. Having learned from my own peers who went to Chinese school, we had been concerned about the lack of engagement and retaining learning via rigid instruction (e.g., sitting, listening, drilling). But here at CSSD, we deeply appreciate the interactive approach in instruction - weekly themes, hands-on activities such as calligraphy, cooking, projects, and using different media - music, videos, stories. Of course, weekly home practice is still a must and much appreciated. For those that don't speak Cantonese well, the teacher has been helpful by providing pronunciation recordings for supporting home practice. As the school year winds down, each class also prepares for and performs each May during the graduation ceremony. It is always amazing to witness their progress. CSSD also has many community events. Ms. Cassandra often informs families in community events, and we are really grateful for those opportunities. Last, we were invited to watch NeZha 2, which we thoroughly enjoyed. It is crucial that my child gets to experience the Chinese culture through popular media, as other children living in Chinese-speaking countries would experience. I highly recommend CSSD for their Mandarin and Cantonese programs!

This school provides a solid Chinese language education and is the only one to provide options in…read moreCantonese and Mandarin. The staff are warm and family.

Our kids have now been attending CPJMA for the past 5 years. We love that it is a smaller school…read moreand have made a number of lifelong friends with other CPJMA families. We have been so happy with all of our boys' teachers. Ms Mai, Ms Macker, Ms Tessaro- Love, Ms Sor and now Ms Guffy and Ms Sottile. They truly are top notch and care so much for the kids. We love the emphasis on music - the school offers an amazing Suzuki violin program which kids can start in Kindergarten. If kids start in Kinder or 1st grade, parents have to also take lessons to be able to help their kids practice, however, the violin program is not mandatory. CPJMA also offers a number of after school options including Spanish, music club, Lego building and cooking classes. Since my husband and I work full time we signed our kids up for "Connect the World". Our kids are now learning about other cultures around the world. It's a great program. Our new principal Ms Sakeenah Smith is also fantastic and is a great addition to the school. Although no school is perfect, we think CPJMA is a great option and feel fortunate it's our local School.

Crown Point Junior Music Academy (CPJMA) is a wonderful school located in Pacific Beach. It's a…read moreschool with an extra focus on music. My God Daughter loves this school, her teachers, and her classmates. She invited me and my wifey to her science fair last week to check out her project. It was great to see all the cool and creative projects the children came up with. On this particular evening, she invited us to family movie night where "The Lego Movie" was playing. The school does fundraising by selling: snacks, food, drinks, and raffle tickets. We got a few slices of pizza, popcorn, and some drinks. They had two separate screens with the movie playing, so no bad seats in the house. Families brought in blankets and pillows so the kiddos could lay out and watch the movie comfortably. It was nice, we had a great time. A lot of families showed up to support the school's movie night. PB seems like a pretty tight knit community!

I've taken classes at three of the four San Diego Community College District's schools. Of them,…read moreSan Diego City College has been my worst experience by far. Safety: This is the biggest concern. The open campus is located in a high traffic area (due to the trolley being right next to it). Anyone can come and go from the campus with little issue. There has never seemed to be any campus police presence. I've never felt safe walking to and from campus, even during the day. Atmosphere: SDCCD's family of schools like to promote that they're inclusive and "safe-spaces" for marginalized groups. And while I've gotten that feeling from City's sister schools, I constantly see vandalism on City's campus targeting racial and sexual minorities. Combined with the fact that the campus is kept up about as well as the surrounding downtown area (in other words: not kept up very well at all), this does not feel like a welcoming and inclusive space. Faculty: Every professor I've taken at City College has fallen into one of two categories. Either they use the class to espouse their personal beliefs (often on topics not related to the class), or they just don't care about their students' success at all. On one occasion, both. Teachers who brag about their fail rate on the first day of classes, smugly saying that they expect 70% of the class to drop by the end of the semester, need to reassess their teaching styles. 70% of your students should NOT be dropping or failing your class. Administration: If you have any problems with a teacher, you'd be better off just dropping and taking the "W" on your record and retaking the class at Mesa or Miramar. Attempting to get an appointment with a counselor is next to impossible, unless you have all day to wait around for a possible drop-in. If you try to reach out to deans or department heads, expect to wait a long time before you hear back--if you ever do. No one at that school cares about student success or well-being. If you need to register with a service like VA, EOPS, or DSPS, you basically need to go to campus and force them to schedule you, because they won't respond to calls or emails. Disabled Students: The campus is a network of hills, with very few elevators. It was clearly not designed with disabled students in mind. Unless you're in an electric wheelchair, it's nearly impossible to get around quickly. As I said above, attempting to register with DSPS is fruitless unless you physically go in to schedule. Campus Layout: The campus is a labyrinth built into a mountain. The buildings are laid out in a toggled grid pattern and labeled with letters that sometimes correspond to the subject(s) being taught in those buildings ("MS" being "Math and Social Sciences" and "S" being "Science"), but also sometimes not ("D" being the campus store and "L" being the "Academic Success Center"). The buildings aren't laid out in any sort of alphabetical order ("A" building is on the opposite corner of the school from "AH" and "B" buildings), so it's next to impossible to figure out where you need to go unless you have the campus map in front of you. The Library (what they call the "Learning Resource Center") is located at the far front corner of the campus, as far from classroom buildings as you can get, which makes it extra difficult to study between classes, and there are limited study spaces inside the classroom buildings. You either need to schedule your classes with no time between, or an hour or more between, or get comfortable with studying while sitting on the floor or outside. Programs: Since City is part of the same District as Mesa and Miramar, they have a lot of the same classes. So even if your specific certification/degree isn't offered through Mesa or Miramar, you can still take your classes there and get your degree through City College. The major exception are vocational programs, like Cosmetology or the AIRE program. If those are the directions you want to go, you'll either need to tough it out at City or look into alternatives (private institutions, Palomar, Grossmont, etc). Overall, San Diego City College is just a mess of a school. It's worth the extra hour or so to commute to Mesa or Miramar instead. Both of those campuses, while not without some administrative flaws, are much better, safer, and just generally care more about their students.

It's good to visit my old college place after so many years since my graduation, a lot had changed,…read morethey rebuilt everything, put in new buildings and renovated many old classrooms, specifically my dance class studio and improv class room, now had a performing stage and they taught more theatrical stuffs here, it's fun to watch a student workshop which is part of a class they're taking, learning about audition process and more.

Amazing place! My daughter has never liked math and now she is begging me to bring her to…read moremathnasium! She loves the way they explain everything to her. Best decision we have ever made is bringing her here.

I love this math sanctuary!!! I take my 8 year old son here twice a week for tutoring and it's…read morehelping him so much. Mathnasium is located in Point Loma. When you walk in you are greeted by friendly tutors, there are drawings of math problems working out on the walls and tables to add character to the decor. Mathnasium starts your child/teen with an assesment test to see where they're at in their math capabilities. Judging the results Mathnasium provides a work binder suited for the math level your child/teen has tested into. The tutors use the hour constructively and work on math from their specialized binder or assignments they may have from school. The great thing about Mathnasium is they offer kids incentives upon completing their work. They offer prizes and gift cards! At the end of the Math session Christian my son's math tutor plays a game of egyptian war. My son loves this and is always excited to go to tutoring there. We are blessed to have found out about this establishment. Glenn the director and his wife are very sweet; they are tutors there as well and have provided kids teens and adults a wonderful positive resource here in San Diego. I would reccomend this business to any parent who would like to watch their kids excell at math in a positive enviornment!

My little brother studies at Journey and loves their teaching style. He will be teaching fluency…read moresoon with the right path!

I've been studying here and it's so great, the teachers a super understanding and always answer any…read moreof my questions, and my English has gotten so much better I highly recommend.

We visited San Diego Mesa College with my high school senior, and I have to say -- coming from…read moreWashington, we were very impressed! The entire campus is flat, super easy to walk, and feels very safe. The buildings look new and are incredibly clean -- I mean really clean! Their athletic programs are top-notch. We spent the whole afternoon with the team and coaches, and everyone was welcoming and professional. And get this -- tuition for the first year is only $9,300, and the following year is ZERO dollars! Say whaaaat?! Huge thank you to the coach for taking the time to meet with us and even treating us to lunch. Overall, Mesa College really stood out -- great people, great campus, and great opportunities!

Mesa is the worst. just in general. I was gonna take a class…read morefor the first semester but I couldn't because mesa was not accepting the form my high-school was sending them. my highschool sent one FOUR TIMES for saying its ok for me to attend Mesa to get extra credits and this went on for a MONTH while it keeps saying my high school needs to send a form and my school keeps saying they did and keeps showing me they are sending the form so i know it was not my high-school fault and everytime I tried calling the school no one picked up for THREE HOURS, if they did even pick up, a lady picks up and always send me to someone else because she dont want to be helping me and do her JOB, then am back on hold for at least another HOUR till someone picks up and then hangs up. I know its not a glitch in the system because I can HEAR someone Breathing or someone talking in the background. this made me not be able to get into a class because no one accepted the form on MESAS SIDE. the same thing happened when I tried getting in on the second semester but this time I went into the school because I was not gonna deal with the phone crap trying to get a hold of someone. so I made my STEP FATHER take off work for the day to go talk to the student services, the front desk people are polite and I told them what happen with the phone stuff thwy apologize and said they will talk with the staff about it, they DIDNT... because I tried calling for a question about the website for Mesa. then after awhile I got into the class I wanted, first day, I came early to find the class and it was a SUB because the real teacher couldn't come in because he broke his hand, the sub wrote down everything we needed to do till we see eachother the next meeting day also which the teacher did NOT ADD ANY WEBSIGHT TO FIND CANVAS on the board on thw first day so i had to CALL THE SCHOOL AGAIN, WAITED A HOUR and had to give my information to another lady becauseonce again the firsr lady never does ANYTHING and had to get a email to my professor to get everything done. when I came in the next time I came early once more, also had everything DONE because I had to take a bus. I got onto canvas on my laptop because i haven't login to it on my laptop because i did my work on my home computer. once I am in canvas it said I am not ENROLLED IN ANY CLASSES so I went BACK to student services ask a man whats going on and showed my id, he said I got KICKED OUT BY THE PROFESSOR and said NO REASON ON THE COMPUTER...I was PISSED because I did the work and was not late and came to school...so I waited for ANOTHER SUB and she didnt know what happened or why the teacher KICKED ME...so I left that class even tho the sub said I can stay, I didnt want to stay because all this work for me just to get kicked OUT???. so I wrote the sub why did he kicked me out and I had to wait a few hours for him to reply, which with him I find reasonable because he got a broken hand and once I got the response he said I was not there on the first day...which I WAS because if I wasn't there on the first day how did I send him a picture of HIS white board of what the sub put on the first day sent to him because when asking for the canvas link I send the picture along with it, so I basically GAVE UP and left this school and NEVER COMING BACK to Mesa to deal with all this drama. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS SCHOOL.