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Some things just don’t feel right…
Continuing my research on various educational resources for homeschooling in the coming years, I found a site called LinkOnLearning.com.
Since the site said that the lessons were designed around the Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum, I was intrigued and signed up as a parent to see what I could discover about the program. Once I had finished the registration process, though, I was faced with the following sentence:
Since you has been refered by Default-Referral Do Not Delete, you can get 10% discount for all plan you seleced.
Now, this is right before you’re encouraged to enroll a child and throw, at the very least, $34.95 at the company. I probably would have signed up for a month just to peek around and evaluate what was available, but that particular sentence threw me for a loop and I clicked away.
Even though I realize that the error is probably due to some outsourced programming that wasn’t tested, I just couldn’t get past it.
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April 18th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Hi.. My name is Nancy and my son Andrew has been using LinkOnLearning for just over a year now. He was having difficulty in school so I tried private tutoring, tutoring services as well as the extra help the school was offering. With little success I was very frustrated. A friend told me about the LinkOnLearning website so I gave it a try and Andrew has been using it ever since. When we started he was two years behind in most subjects. Now the School has tested him and he is working at his grade level and is above in reading and comprehension. Anyway, you are probably right it was probably a programming error, I haven’t seen it so it was likely fixed - I know from personal experience their customer service and willingness to help parents like my self has been great. You should give it a try if you want a good online learning tool.
April 18th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Shortly after I contacted linkonlearning.com about the message, someone from the site contacted me for help finding and fixing it. Based on that response alone, I will probably go back and sign up in the fall.. at least to give it a try for a few months.
Thanks for your comments about their program. I’m glad to hear it’s working for your son.