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About the Center

Introduction

Welcome to our Kumon Math and Reading Center of Nacogdoches! For more than 50 years, Kumon’s after-school academic enrichment program has helped children achieve success worldwide. We strive to instill in children the desire to achieve and the motivation to learn on their own. Whether your child is seeking enrichment, needs help catching up or is just beginning his or her academic career, Kumon is designed to help him or her develop a love of learning.

Students advance through the program at their own pace. Our emphasis on individualized learning helps your child become focused, motivated and self-reliant. We monitor each child’s progress to ensure comprehension before moving on to a new concept. With a strong academic foundation, critical thinking and problem solving abilities, your child has the potential to achieve whatever he or she desires.

The Kumon Math Program is a comprehensive curriculum that develops the necessary skills to help children progress from counting through calculus. For more information about the Kumon Math Program, click here.

The Kumon Reading Program begins with basic phonics and progresses all the way through advanced reading comprehension. For more information about the Kumon Reading Program, click here.

Price and Fees

Monthly Tuition:
$175 for enrolling in one subject
$300 for enrolling in both reading and math ($50 discount when enrolled in both subjects)

Registration:
$80 per student

Policies

Holiday or vacation schedules

Planning and organizing work for your child takes a great deal of thought and organization. We require at least 1 day notice before any extended absence in order to put your child’s vacation packet together.

If we do not receive advance notice, we will try our best to put a packet together for you by the end of class that day. You may return to class 15 minutes before closing to pick it up. If we are too busy and are not able to put work together, we will call you and arrange to have it ready for you by the next scheduled class session.

Please let us know if you want your child to take a few days off, lessen the daily workload, or even increase the amount of work to be done over your vacation. However, if a parent requests extra work or an increase to the regular daily workload while on vacation, the work must be home graded. Extra work will not be included into the student’s lesson plan if it has not been home graded by the parent while on vacation.

Center closures

Center closings are announced well in advance. We use all of the venues available to us to inform you of any schedule changes. Center closures are announced on the bulletin board in the parent waiting area, in the monthly newsletter, verbally when your child checks in and out of class the week before a closing, on the entrance door, and on the website.

The Center follows the federal holiday schedule for closing, but not exactly. Please check the website, the newsletter, or with Center staff for information on specific dates that we will be closed.

Student incentives

As strict as we are about homework completion (please see section on “Incomplete homework”), we are equally committed to rewarding students for their dedication and effort.

Students are awarded Kumon dollars at each class if all of their homework and classwork have been completed and corrected. Prize day is the first class day of every month.

Through their effort and self-discipline, our students are able to earn tangible and frequent rewards for their hard work.

Students do not get a Kumon dollars if their work is incomplete.

Incomplete homework

Everyone has a crazy day from time to time where the schedule goes out the window. This happens to Kumon students, too. However, we are very strict about homework completion. We expect our students to come to class with all of their Kumon homework 100% complete, along with all mistakes corrected. Students who come to class with work that is incomplete must complete all of it at the Center before beginning the classwork for the day, as well as make all corrections.

If there are extenuating circumstances that have prevented your child from completing their work at home, please be sure to send in a note or email alerting us in advance that the homework has not been done. We will reschedule their work for them.

he active supervision of daily assignments at home is linked to each child’s success in the Kumon Program.

It is crucial that parents provide a 10-15 minute block of time per subject for the completion and correction of daily Kumon assignments.

It is the job of the parents to insure that assignments are timed, that errors are marked, and that mistakes are corrected by the student before beginning new work.

All parents are expected to home grade their child’s Kumon homework. Students whose parents’ home grade make faster, smoother progress through the Kumon Program because:

  • your child corrects their mistakes daily, thus learning from their mistakes and making fewer mistakes overall
  • your child repeats less
  • your child is more motivated because you are involved
  • you are more motivated because you know exactly what your child is doing

A basic tenet of the Kumon Method is that students learn from their mistakes. Kumon students are required to correct every mistake on every set they complete. Students whose parents do not home grade spend a great deal of time in class correcting mistakes from old homework before they can begin the days’ classwork. Lots of correction greatly discourages students. This often leads to an extended stay at the center. Students are also required to correct all mistakes on their daily classwork as well.

We provide answer books and a handy Parents Guide to Home Grading to help you get started if you are not already home grading.

What if I miss a class?

Everyone misses a class sooner or later. Either the child is sick, the traffic is bad, or a practice runs late.

Work for the whole week is provided on Mondays. If your child misses a class on Monday, his or her work will be placed in the homework box outside for you to pick up at your convenience. If your child misses a class on Thursday, the child should already have the work in his or her KUMON bag. For certain students who are not scheduled to come on Monday, please verify with the Instructor on the homework pick up day.

If a student misses a regularly scheduled class and does not pick up the homework, the work for the days missed is forfeited and will be reassigned for the next class. Work missed due to an unexcused absence cannot be “made up”.

Completed and corrected assignments are used to develop and modify each student’s individualized lesson plan. For this reason, new assignments will not be given after the 2nd subsequent unexcused absence until the previously assigned work is returned.

Please be sure to notify us at least one class session in advance of any extended vacation in order to give us ample time to plan and organize for your child’s absence. Thanks!

Termination policy

If a student is going to drop out of a class, either temporarily or indefinitely for some reason, a written notice is required at least 30 days before the effective date. Notice of Transfer or Termination form is available online.  Failure to provide such notice will result in continued charges to your account. Your account will remain open and active until written notice is received. Your account will be closed 30 days after we receive your Notice of Transfer or Termination.

Tuition is pro-rated for the first month only according to the day of the month enrolled. Full tuition is charged for all subsequent months until 30 days written notice is given to terminate enrollment.

Paid tuition is non-refundable and is forfeited should a student discontinue enrollment. In cases of medical or other emergencies where a 30 day notice is impossible to give, please call us and we will do what we can to accommodate your situation.

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