Talk:Sylvan Learning

Delete - Advertisement
I don't feel quite strongly enough to AfD the page, but, to me, it looks like an advertisement, and quacks like an advertisement. Grepowell 04:07, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I do agree, this is obviously an advertisment. Please delete. 90.48.97.153 (talk) 23:06, 6 April 2009 (UTC).

Defense for keep
Sylvan Learning Center is a very popular and, from what I hear, reputed tutoring institute for children in the US. This article needs massive work on a variety of points, but the article should not be deleted.--Esprit15d 17:01, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep. We keep individual schools, so a chain of schools can certainly be included.  Friday (talk) 17:04, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

I cannot justify utilizing Wikipedia as an encyclopedia, if they offer companies like this free advertising.
 * +1 for keep. Wikipedia has thousands of other companies with articles here.  Nothing different with this one except a need for a rewrite. --Drmike (talk) 00:27, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Requests for Expansion
Now, I wonder if someone could put this article on the Requests for expansion page. I need to get to sleep so someone else will have to do it. Please. Thanks. --Shultz 17:14, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. Samsara contrib talk 17:29, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

This article reads as if it were written by the head of a public school teachers' union. e.g. Sylvan works with corporatist governments around the world to promote deterioration of public education (e.g., less funding, larger classes, unmanageable class composition) in order to increase the private school market and thereby its student enrollment.

POV
The first paragraph of this entry, though not entirely neutral, is not in dispute. The second paragraph clearly has an agenda, with observations like "Sylvan works with 'corporatist' governments around the world to promote deterioration of public education..." In what way??? This passage is so far off base and inflammatory that it makes me wonder how the author was harmed by Sylvan Learning Center, or what other source his / her anger toward the subject has. --Blackjack48 02:14, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

As if there weren't enough canaries
The complete lack of any outright qualitative assessment (except for the backgrounds of the owners) speaks volumes about this culture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.235.104.123 (talk • contribs) , at 00:00, 2 April 2007 (UTC). _ ( info, added (this date), by: --85.49.134.139 (talk) 18:05, 2 November 2008 (UTC) ).


 * How does one qualitatively assess a test prep company? And what culture are you referring to?  Λυδ α cιτγ  00:48, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Mass revert
I've done a revert to Unschool's January 3 revision of this page, but kept the current advertisement/POV tags intact. It read like an advertisement (especially with the edits by 69.7.77.20) - and still does - that was the best version I could revert to. This page needs a lot more cleaning up. --FlyingPenguins (talk) 05:15, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

WTF!?
Why the FUCK does EEEE redirect here!? What the FUCK does "EEEE" have to do with Sylvan BULLSHIT Learning!? ANSWER ME YOU FUCKING SHILLS!!!
 * Profanity aside, I think the writer may have a valid point. I'm not certain what EEEE actually stands for, so I don't have any idea as to why it links to this page. Perhaps someone with knowledge of EEEE or more experience with disambiguations can comment or take action? Transmissionelement (talk) 15:15, 30 December 2009 (UTC)


 * It's their NASDAQ stock symbol. -- &oelig; &trade; 12:49, 12 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Apparantly.. according to the user who redirected it. However when doing a search it appears that NASDAQ:EEEE leads to "Educate, Inc." or "eMachines, Inc", so I dunno. PS. to the original asker of the question, please Be civil. -- &oelig; &trade; 13:07, 12 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, that explains part of this. However, I can't actually find that they have a stock symbol any longer. It does not appear to be EEEE or SLVN. Stock research really isn't my thing, but they were once SLVN, then were apparently bought by Laureate Inc, leading to a symbol of LAUR. Then I guess EEEE came in at some point. Currently, I can't tell who owns them, or if they are privately held. Anyone help? Transmissionelement (talk) 18:01, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

EEEE (Educate, Inc)is the old stock ticker before greed skum Becker and Co washed their debentures out with Apollo Group and handed Sylvan over to them. Apollo Group sucked the life blood out of Sylvan and when the then unprofessional management caught wind that the franchisee community was tooling up to sue and buy the company out they ran back to Doug Becker at Sterling Capitol Partners thereby saving their jobs for awhile. Sterling quickly saw to it that Sylvan was given yet a new set of incompetent managers who have practically bankrupt what is left of the company. Sylvan is ripe for chapter 11 and the only think holding it together is belief that their new system of tablet based vaporware will somehow allow them to transition into a tech company. Having wasted 100's of millions of dollars on failed products and systems Sylvan is circling the drain. As soon as creditors catch Sylvan's true drift the jig will be up and all that will remain are some outdated trademarks and frustrated franchise owners wondering how could this just happen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.125.84.49 (talk) 05:46, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Unabomber, his manifesto and Sylvan
Why there isn't anything about that, how Theodore Kaczynski a.k.a. Unabomber critisim Sylvan in his manifesto?-Henswick (talk) 18:04, 20 August 2010 (UTC)