Learn To Be

While LearntoBe has a wonderful mission I would recommend avoiding this platform as a volunteer or a tutor. From what I have observed there is not much of a vetting process for tutors or students. I had no formal interview to become a tutor. I just filled out an application and filmed myself via webcam answering a few video questions. Due to LearntoBe failing to screen tutors and families, this leads to a variety of issues. Like other people have said you can have tutors or families who are not committed to the program and stop reaching out or disconnect for no reason. This has happened to me several times and is extremely frustrating and disheartening. The other issue I noticed was that often times the student's needs we're not adequately described. I had the opportunity to tutor two students in high school level math, however; the families mis-represented the students' abilities. I was expecting to tutor a high school student slightly behind in math, but I discovered that the students I tutored had the math skills of a 3rd or 4th grader. When I reached out to LearntoBe with these issues, they expressed concern, but took no action. Unless you are desperate I would highly recommend avoiding LearntoBe due to their failure to vet their tutors and students. They are a well meaning, but very disorganized organization.

During my time with Learn to Be, it has not been a pleasant experience. My daughter needed help with physics and as I was looking for tutors, we stumbled upon Learn to Be. It looked reliable and seemed like it fitted our needs but, after our fair share of 5 tutors in the past month, only 1 was actually willing to help. You need to message the tutors, describe them your child's needs and eventually, you would set up a date and time where they could meet through zoom online. Simple, right? Well, actually no. This is not the case when tutors never check or reply to your messages and leave you on days without an answer, ghosting you, and eventually "releasing you". Releasing is when you or the tutor thinks that it is not working out and cut off all sort of communication. Every single time I have "connected" with a tutor, they end up releasing my daughter, even before the first meeting. Another detail, you can't report the tutors to complain or tell people about the tutor, so essentially, they can connect from kid to kid, without ever ACTUALLY helping them and contributing to the platform's goal. Ultimately, my experience with this platform, as you have read, has not been positive and hope this helps any other parents who plan on joining or using this platform to "help" their kids, when it really doesn't. It is a waste of time and the "tutors" there don't help and you most likely, won't actually find someone who wants to help and is actually committed.

Signed up and none responded. I followed up and received an email stating "After carefully reviewing your application, we encountered some challenges in evaluating your eligibility due to a lack of information. This made it difficult to assess whether you meet our program's criteria." The professional way to handle this would have been to pick up the phone or send an email seeking additional information.

I am a retired, credentialed educator with extensive teaching experience and a desire to provide online help to struggling students.I applied to volunteer with LTB. They did not respond. That meant, per their policy, I was not “accepted” as a tutor. No reason, no questions, no “thanks but, no thanks”. I wonder how serious they are and what their criteria is for accepting volunteers…

Schedule with two different tutors both say can we reschedule since beginning of June horrible service.