Many teens lack the essential skills to manage themselves successfully in school. It often boils down to learning two critical skills: learning to manage one’s own time and learning how to learn.

Most high schools do not focus on reinforcing student use of planners, and for many teens, planner use tends to decline as they move through school. Their ability to manage their own time will determine how much freedom, control, and money they will have throughout life.

Many students also lack fundamentals. While they are expected to read their books, do the assigned problems, master the material and come to class with questions, students rarely do all these things.

Parents often run out of ideas for how to support their kids to do the right thing. So Optimum aims to help kids learn how to manage themselves in school, and in the process breaks the dysfunctional pattern of student failure and parent frustration.