My biggest fear was making things worse, my daughter already felt bad about herself academically, she would shut down if I even mentioned her schoolwork at home. I was terrified that putting her with yet another tutor who pushed hard would break the tiny bit of confidence she had left. I told Victory this on the call, very directly, and she said something that I have thought about a lot since, she said the goal is never to push harder, the goal is to find where the confusion actually started and fix it there. My daughter did not come home from her first session deflated, she came home and told me what she had learned, voluntarily, without me asking. That had not happened in over a year.

I found Victory through a search online, no personal recommendation, no friend who had used her, nothing, and I am the kind of person who does not hand my child over to someone I cannot verify. So I went into the free call with my guard up, I had a list of questions in my head and I was ready to end the call early if anything felt off. What I found was someone who spoke about my son's situation like she had seen it before, not in a scripted way but in the way that a person who has genuinely worked with a lot of children speaks. She never once tried to sell me anything, she just focused on the problem, I enrolled my son before I even got off the call, I had not expected to do that.