Passport to Discovery Reviews

I recently spent $1,095 to enroll my daughter in Passport to Discovery. At the time, my daughter was interested in participating in the competition. Since then, due to school demands and preparing for college, her goals have changed as well as her responsibilities for preparing for SAT’s AP classes and colleges applications. She is no longer interested in participating. I was told that if I pay an additional $175 that she could be placed in another competition for the following year. However, my daughter is not interested at all. So, I requested that my money be refunded to me, especially when it’s a large sum of money that will not be utilized and I have my own health issues that need to be paid for. I told the Barbizon representative, Jamie Mannella, and pleaded with her to refund the money and explained the circumstances that I just mentioned above. She said that it could not be refunded. So, basically, what I’m here to tell all of you interested in participating is that you MUST make sure that this is what you or your child really wants before committing to pay a large sum of money. Because, they are not willing to work with you except to force your child to participate in a competition that they clearly will not do well in, because they are being forced to do it and have no interest. If Barbizon and Passport to Discovery “Really” cared about your child and their success, they would not be so un compassionate and rigid about refunding money to a family that has stated that there is no interest from the child and forcing them to pay for something that could be used toward our health bills that are currently taking precedence during these trying times in our world. Please just be sure that you and your child are convinced that this is what you want. Otherwise, you will be treated with the same unwillingness to help me and lack of empathy from the representatives. Lawanna Gough