Testimonials

I would like to thank Bright Minds and specifically our tutor Ken B. I contacted Bright Minds through a referral when both my sons were struggling with AP Spanish. My youngest son had four years of Spanish but was failing, and my older son had five years of Spanish and his grade in the class was just o.k. My oldest needed a bit of help to get him over the edge to succeed on the AP Spanish exam, where my youngest at the very least needed to bring his grade up as much as possible. To say the least the results were outstanding. My youngest went from failing to an A! Which is incredible. Both of my sons commented after the first full teaching session, “We learned more in one evening than we did this entire quarter!” As parents we were very concerned about our youngest son failing AP Spanish and not passing the AP Spanish exam. However, when you look at how difficult it is to get into most Florida State colleges these days the combination of your GPA, FCAT and SAT scores are all very important. Even if our youngest son did NOT pass the AP Spanish exam at the very least he needed a higher grade in high school to ensure a higher GPA. I am happy to say that both achieved their goals with flying colors. By working with Ken Blank both my sons were able to achieve a full “A” in the class. Ken was outstanding. A very mild mannered instructor with years of experience and patience of a saint! He sat with the boys for the allotted time and not only did he help with the Spanish language itself but with some of the history behind some of the reading required at the AP Spanish level. He helped explain the type of writing of each author and the background behind each story. He did more than just teach Spanish he also taught the concepts behind what was going on. They both recently took the AP Spanish exam. Both claimed it to be the hardest of the AP Exams. My youngest son is not sure he passed, and my oldest believes he may have scored high enough to have it count towards his college credit. If we would have know how difficult the AP Spanish exam was we would have started the tutoring sooner. I guess the only regret would be that we didn’t start with Bright Minds and Ken Blank sooner!!! No matter how they end up doing on the AP Spanish exam they were both able to raise their grade in the class to an “A” and increase their chance of passing the AP Spanish Exam, and that is all you can ask for. I highly recommend Bright Minds and Ken Blank to anyone that has a child that needs help in AP Spanish or any Spanish class at any level. He was truly outstanding and committed. Thank you very much Ken Blank and Bright Minds.