Coloring with Nelson

Although the sheets may be boring, apparently they work as Kumon is growing. So I applied to open a franchise but the franchise development manager for my area has never responded to my daily phone messages that I've left for the past three weeks and has never responded to any of my emails. Calls to three other adminstrative offices resulted in nothing. You can never get a human being, just voicemail. "Press 0 for operator" is just a gimmick, it gets you nowhere. Then a call to the U.S. corporate office also got me voice mail and no return phone call. What's wrong with these people?

Um, you're basically my idol. I googled Kumon and wound up here. Why would I do such a thing? Because I have Post-Kumon Disorder. I work at one! You’re living proof that I should quit. There's one problem with that because I need this thing called money to live or something like that. They get mad when you draw? I would give you extra stickers if you drew me those works of art. How old are you? You’re literate enough to write the funniest blog ever, but you’re on 2A math? Lame.

-Melanie

hey melanie. well, those are not mine. i just searched kumon sucks or something like that on google images, and found those. I'm level J, so I'm getting there.

It sucks that you have to work there.

Well, feel free to email me at coloringwithnelson@gmail.com. I would love to talk to you about how crappy kumon is...

This isn't exactly SUPPORTING Kumon.....but i've gotten a lot better at my Math, after studying for nearly a year there. Now, after 3 years, i'm better than all those shitheads in class, stuck on simple fractions.

I'm on H level, in early 9th grade in, with Australian education (you may know, that Australian education is quite shit), so considering H is the average Year 9 level, I am one of the best in the grade. D:

Leave Kumon alone. Let the people who want to do good, study as they may, and the people who want to quit, do it without having to bad-mouth it.

If Kumon were to never work successfully, it wouldn't be this popular.

P.S. : If you didn't know, this page is under the external links, on the Wikipedia page of Toru Kumon.

well sir, it helps, because of the mindless repeating of those packets. if u do the packets over and over again, you'll learn it indefinately. but kumon is not the best way to learn things.

Hi. I got here from Wikipedia. I grew up in Japan, and quite a few kids around me went to Kumon, so I know pros and cons. One of my classmates was doing calculus at age 8. On the other hand my younger brother got bored and quit within weeks.

I have to say, though, working as a teaching assistant at a U.S. university, the average math proficiency of my students is rather disappointing, and methods like Kumon may help them earlier in their education.

I teach biology, and many students complained when I did not allow for calculators (you know how much formulas and texts can be stored in those graphic calculators) in an exam that only required simple calculations like "0.2*0.2" or "0.3*3*0.16". Not to mention many of them were pre-med, pre-nursing, or pre-pharmavy students. It is a bit scary that in near future they will be calculating how much drug to give to patients, etc...

By the way, the artist who drew on the Kumon packet is a Japanese boy, and his writing skill is at the 3rd or 4th grade level (at least). The math questions are apparently at the 1st grade level. No wonder he got hopelessly bored...

um, i hope you know that this is a comedy blog sir. A COMEDY BLOG.

the kumon method is a bad way to teach something because the same problems are pounded into u. the kids do not choose to learn, they are told to by teachers and parents. they are forced, and deprived of what they need: golf. they need golf.

well, maybe not golf, but they dont need to do packets such as those.

and i think the artist who drew those pictures is quite talented.

"By the way, the artist who drew on the Kumon packet is a Japanese boy, and his writing skill is at the 3rd or 4th grade level (at least). The math questions are apparently at the 1st grade level. No wonder he got hopelessly bored..."

yeah well, some kids, are rebels. what can i say.

dude very true, I just googled kumon and gay, cause I hated and still hate kumon (i got out 2 years ago yay) I really did draw pointless crap on my gay worksheets I laughed and cried when I read this stuff man! hilareous!!!

cabarnet- thanks for linking me. i need all the publicity i can get

Just like many of you I googled "I hate Kumon" and look where I ended up. I'm on level "I" and I just lost my answer book. Eeek, murder me now? Hehe, I tend to get in fights with my mother about it. She always says, "Fine quit. Do you want to fail at math!?" (I'm getting all "A's" yet I'm taking a kumon class that has not affected my grade at all. Go figure.) I say, "Okay." And where does that get me? "Well too fucking bad, honey!" I've been doing it for eight years now, she wants me to get to Calculus by tenth grade. (I'm only in seventh!)

well anonymous, im a junior, and im on level k, and i can honestly say that i have not gotten better at all.

and your not the only one. my mother tells me to quit if i hate it so much, but she wont let me quit...

i have got better at maths through kumon but the amount of nagging and effort it takes for me to do a paper is just not worth it!
i only do 10 pages a week but it is so repetitive i just cant take it

they make me retake all the packets. then it takes twice or tripple the amount of time.

level m sucks... its like 1989 shit. who would wanna do work published before you were born.

haha

I thought I would take the advice of a student that has been attending Kumon for 7 years. He showed me the pictures he draws on his Kumon and then proceeded to tell me to put 'Kumon sucks' into google. I've got a good way for you to get your own back against those evil parents and your instructor who force you to do Kumon, which I'll come to in a minute. First I had better let you know that I'm an Instructor, (the Thanet North centre, in the UK).

I held a Role Reversal Day to raise money for charity. Instead of students doing Kumon, I had every parent come in a do some work. The students had to mark their parent's work. All parents had a week's homework which they needed as nearly every parent failed to complete the worksheets in the time or accuracy required. A few parents were in class for almost 2 hours! We raised £50 ($90) for charity. Maybe you could suggest this idea to you Instructor?

P.S. How come you only get 3-4 sheets / day. Every student that comes to my centre gets 10 pages / day on 2A, even 5 year olds :-).

P.P.S. Work harder and faster and complete the programmes and then you won't have to do it again.

Hullo Adam. Glad to see there are some UK readers.

I'm gonna be in Kumon only for the rest of this summer.
My parents said I could quit. I'm on Level L (Reading, and from what I've been told, it's the last reading level), and Level K Math.

Well thanks for posting, and visit soon. I might write up Kumon = Evil Part 2.

Im 10 and on level D. I HATE it! Do you know the instructor is so good at convincing people to stay in Kumon? Shes so good a convincing because Kumon is so horible that she has to convince everyone! Anyways Ive had ENOUGH!

More like Math, Reading, Unsuccess

THANK YOU

I used to do kumon but i hated it. Luckily at the end of year seven we went to holidays and i gotto stop kumon as i was going into year 8(high school). In year 8 my mum didnt nag me at all. but it year 9 i actually told my munm i wanted to do kumon because it lets me progress in front of my class

BULLSHIT

I have just started H level and those spastics forgot to give me the book to copy from, so i got searched this, looked beside me and started drawing on them... whats the point of throwing them out... When they can be used as toilet paper...

Dean.

I used to be a kumon instructor. I'm in high school. I disagreed with the Kumon method and, after a few weeks, quit my job. The first thing I noticed was how ineffective the method of repitition is. I don't think the method works, bc it drains the creativity out of people. Personally, I think parents should just read more to their kids, get them interested in reading, and they'll learn by themselves. If children need help in a subject, get a real tutor, not someone like me. Some of the younger kids still don't know what "st" sounds like! They say words because of the cutesy pictures by them, not learning the important phonetics. I NEVER used kumon, and I got a 2340 on the SAT the 1st time and have a 4.0 gpa. Please, if you're over 13, it's probably too late for you to stop going to Kumon, but if you have a little brother or sister, ask your parents whether they really believe it's effective for a 16-year-old person to teach their child. I usually don't get worked up about things, but taking away a child's creativity is too important.

I dont think kumon is that bad. Accept they stall u and want all the money you got and just make you feel bad and reapet work. Other than that kumon is great!

Some people sya that if you don't like Kumon, then you should just quit... but trust me, I know personally at least 3 people who have to do a bunch of crap and they can't quit becuase their parents are making them do it... Stupid Kumon.

i fuckin hate kumon.
im 16 and still on level D because that stupid ho gave me no instructions when testing me for placement, and sent be all the way back to level B, instead of Algebra 2, where im supposed to be.
Someone needs to publish a free online answer key to all levels.

hi agree with anyone who hates kumon i hate hate hate it sooooooooooo much would rather cut my hand off!
i am dying to quit and i would but one problem my mom doesnt let me no matter wat! You've got to help me kumon haters to convince my mom to get out of kumon ur my only hope
i've tried evrything!!!!!
YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME!
PLEASE ANYONE WHO READS THIS GIVE ME ADVICE TO CONVINCE HER!

hey man, omg ur totally right about ur theory. Kumon does make you dumb as a rock. I HATE IT SO MUCH, my parents won't take me out of it even though i ask them all the time. What is the point of kumon if they teach you the same thing in school. And school is free for crying out loud. Well elementary and high school is.
I need some crazy advise to get my parents to get me out of kumon. Its retarded. like the kumon instructor gave me those gay cosmic cards, and one of them was a kumon assembly plant, and i said to him, show me the way to get to this place so i can blow it up, and he gave me more work sheets, and packages, how gay is that!!!! geezz

kumon is soooo gay i mean cmon we already do this crap in school and most of the shit in kumon doesnt make sense. did i mention that my kumon director is a fucking raisin!? im serious she looks like a shriveled up raisin faced 4 foot tall bitch! i totally think youre right about your theory about how it makes you dumber infact, ive experienced that horror myself. if it werent for phaglicking kumon, i would know where to put the goddamn brackets on a math test----since kumon gay math is different from school math. i cant tell which is worse kumon or chinese summer school, theyre both gay and meant to torture children

hey, its the holidays and i have a bunch load of kumon to do so do any of you know if they post the kumon answer books on the net. If not, i'm totally screwed. I'm on K in math and L in english. Fun!

Yer i do kumon its a heap of boring crap its the holidays now and i have better things to do than sit on my ass and do questions that i have done like 5 million times before go die in hell kumon

Oh god!! I hate kumon. It sucks. when its snowing do i get to play?? no, i have 2 do my stupid kumon. I want 2 quit but my mom says i'll lose my math smartness or some crap like that. it's just *yawn*

YO KUMON = MAD PUSSSSSSSSYYYYYYYY NIGGAA

YO KUMON = MAD PUSSSSSSSSYYYYYYYY NIGGAA

YO KUMON = MAD PUSSSSSSSSYYYYYYYY NIGGAA

YO KUMON = MAD PUSSSSSSSSYYYYYYYY NIGGAA

kumon in my town is run by a bag of shit heads i hate the motherfuckers their but it was done jak shit with my education at my school i think we should all just stop and fight the stupid mother fucks

lol to the guy right above me you own, my story today, well i was at kumonm today and i pull out the homework and my teacher is like ehh why havent you done it i said I HAVE A SoCIAl life/school work then shes like ehh then shes like RIGht your a faggot your starting aagain.. so im like... then like ok.. and then she starts mocking me shes liek yeeesfh and starts really pisssing me the fucking shit hell of what a fucking wanker KUMON SUCKS U SUCK ARESE

Kumon can suck my dick!!!!!!!!!

Write 5 paragraphs about why you hate kumon and write that it wastes money, bores the crap out of me, and keeps repeating you just to make money. Give it to your parents, make a copy and give it to ur instructor.That's the best advice i can give you my fellow brothers and sisters.

all u peeple that say kumon helped u u guys suck it doesn't help at all and the guy at my center just wants money that's why they keep on giving me the same packetes. y do i have to waste an hour doing this stuff while all my friends are doing something fun. I HATE KUMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I HATE KUMON TOO! Im 11 and on level G!! It sucks so much..I tried to quit but my parents wont let me. Someone please help me quit!!!

you think your screwed? I'm on G and i'm 13! And i have reading on F, and summer, chinese, normal, cadet, and technical school homework left. PLUS! I have to practise the piano and violin and saxophone!

hi! i am from mexico and my parents putted me into that crap of kumon,...im on level c and im 14 holy crap kumon is for retardeds ..my instructor is so lesbian and a fucking bitch .... how do i do to make my parents take me out of this fucking place..... KUMON = CRAP,SHIT,STUPID,GAY.....


thanks

SILVIA you can suck my dick! (silvia iss the name of my kumn instructor)

PETER , hello
i was looking on the internet to find the answers for J 49 a because im 13 and im on level J. i hate kumon but my parents wont let me quit.
please help with the answers!!

My god! Why does kumon have to EXIST!? It ruined my life!

My sister and I hated Kumon as well. Dad finally listened and signed us up for www.tenmarks.com - some friend of his recommended it. It's SOOOOO much better, and my parents are happy because we're doing great.

I have been in Kumon for awhile and my parents are planning to make me quit it cause my mom saids "Kumon is not helping my child. All she ever does is the same things over and over again and she doesn't learn when all they do is do the work and then have me check them." I agree with her Kumon ruined my life and is a waste of time. I'll probably make my mom quit kumon for me asap and when you are doing fractions, they make it harder for you cause you have to learn a whole new way of doing it and if you don't do it their way, you have to redo the entire packet D: I just use my calculator for those kinds of dumb stuff that waste my time.

OHMYGOODNESS i know!!! i hate this crap. I'm on level K and i swear i'm getting nowhere. Sure it helped a lil way back when but im taking honors classes and it aint doing squat. so suck on that kumon. and honestly my mom said im doing it until i finish but whatever that's what the answer books for i guess...DON'T EVER DO IT IF YOUR ABOVE 8TH GRADE DOESN'T HELP. IT MAKES YOU MEMORIZE, NOT LEARN.

kumon sucks and one day i hope someone burns down every single kumon center and maybe with the instructors inside
the instructors who work there r all old and look like they r gonna keel over and die!!!all they want to do is get ur freakin money!!!!and the packets r retarded they repeat it over and over which is ointless since ur gonna learn it at school!!!!DX

hey man all of you are just faggots. who gives a shit. if u dont like it than quit dum mothafuckas, dont complain!!!!

Great blog. Very entertaining.

All of you complaining about Kumon should study hard, get good grades, get a good job, save your money, then lose it all by buying a Kumon franchise.

If you think the students are unhappy, check out how the Kumon franchise owners feel:

http://www.unhappyfranchisee.com/kumon-franchise-owner-complains-of-overexpansion/

kumon is fucked up cuz i got a ps vita da otha day and cuz the shity bitches lied about my test it almost got taken away and now i cant get uncharted on it so fuck kumon ur alot of assholes there isn'teven a word for my hate

KUMON IS SO FUCKEN GAY I WANNA KNOCK IT DOWN. I have been doing it for 5 years now, im on level I and in year 9, At school we are learning COMPLETELY different stuff, im doing average at maths and exams are coming up. BUT NO i cant study for maths i have to make time to do my stupid gay ass fucking kumon and sometimes it takes foreverrrr so i cant study at all. I tried to convince my mum to let me and my brother quit coz she spends at least 400 every 2 months which is AlOT of money and im getting no where i have been on I for almost a year now. HELP MEEE I WANT TO QUIT IT SOOO FUCKEN BADDD AHHHHHHHH!

I HATE F****** KUMON! IT'S WASTE OF MONEY! EVERY MONTH OF KUMON PAYS £90

Clearly what you say is true: it's spelled "retarded," and you're using it incorrectly (and offensively, I might add). I work at a Kumon franchise. For the record, most kids do NOT draw useless (and terrifying) pictures on their packets. Out of hundreds of students, I've had just one who regularly drew pictures on his work. And even then it wasn't to the extreme you seem to indulge in, it was more the occasional "I farted" speech bubble added onto one of the Kumon illustrations.

What you fail to realize is that someone has to spend time planning, prepping, and grading your work (which, by the way, your parents signed you up for--not the staff). Yeah, we get it, you hate it. We have no control over whether you continue Kumon, but thanks for making our jobs harder and more miserable just because your parents want you to learn. Grow up.

I read that the Kumon company is also equally fucked up. An article said that Kumon President Akira Hamanaka, Kumon EVP Atsushi Nose, COO Katsumata were all fired for stealing millions from the company. Have they been arrested and send them prison?

Good luck in your troubles. Japanese organizations are creepy and screwed. Good Luck to all you Kumon Unhappy Franchisees.

Kumon is a rote learning program of inferior quality. The program in the US is mostly done through franchisees who are empty nesters or lazy housewives who want to make an extra buck on the side. Kumon instructors are not qualified or certified teachers. They do not have any teaching licences. One can call them worksheet factories. Most of the center's cater to unsuspecting Asian clients who think Kumon helps their kids. It doesn't. It just additionally burdens your child, robs them of their childhood, stresses them out and attracts bullying in schools. One can read it all over the internet how much children hate it. Some have even attempted suicide. Kumon centers are unsafe locations for children. There have been child molestations at Kumon and one can never be sure of the shady characters who work at Kumon centers. There are much better programs out there and online. My advice, let your child grow, at his/her own pace. They will develop into more responsible and smart kids.

I stopped my children from Kumon after I concluded that the Kumon teacher probably had other intentions than tutoring my children. Her name is Nicole Smith and we live in Hamilton in Ontario, Canada where the centre is located. I was warned about this Kumon teacher by others, only to realize for myself that Nicole Smith is just a disgusting "creepy aunt" who you would keep your boys away from. Beware of that weirdo.

I agree, one can never be sure who staff the Kumon learning centers nowadays. Maybe you are right that pedophiles, child molesters, rapists, child sex predators and other criminals could be targeting children at Kumon centers.

I just ask myself, why are so many children raped and molested at Kumon Math & Reading centers? In my opinion Kumon Math & Reading tutors are pedophiles, child molesters, rapists, drug addicts, criminals etc.

Go to www.antikumon.weebly.com if you want to stop Kumon!

Well, Peter H I really agree with you that kumon is very bad for you I'm a fifth grader that's in level h and it is killing me!!! 😳😳😳 I searched up how to convince your parents to let you quit kumon and I ended up in your blog. Finally I have some people that agree with me!!!!!!😳😊

Preach Preacher!I hate kumon! BOOOOOOOO