Starfish Savers
PO Box 230636 Centreville, VA 20120
Phone 703.631.9557
Fax 703.631.9558
Email info@starfishsavers.com
Charlie
"I highly recommend Larrie Randall. I was in a real rut. Life was difficult, and I needed solutions. My parents hired several professionals to work with me, but Larrie was the only one who I felt made a significant difference."
"I highly recommend Larrie Randall. When I was in high school, I was in a real rut. My aunt had just died, my family had just adopted a new kid into the family, I had just broken up with my long-term girlfriend, and the regular high school environment wasn't working for me. Life was difficult, and I needed solutions. My parents hired several professionals to work with me, but Larrie was the only one who I felt made a significant difference. While all the other professionals were busy trying to find out what kind of mental or personality disorder I had and what kind of pill to prescribe me, Larrie focused on helping me to solve my actual problems in an organized, planned fashion. Larrie assisted me by listening to my problems and coming up with plans to solve them and feasible ways to carry out those plans. In my case, she was a coach, not a shrink. She has her students write down plans, write down deadlines (and she checks on the deadlines to make sure her students have made progress), and uses her extensive knowledge and wisdom of "the system" (especially the school system, which has a lot more "well-kept secrets" than you may think) and the result is that her students not only accomplish more under her tutelage, but learn how to do the things themselves. These days, I'm what most people would call pretty successful, though I don't think a lot of people would have expected me to become such when I was in high school (except Larrie, of course, who believes you can do almost anything if you work hard enough). I just graduated last month from Yonsei University Korean Language Institute in the Institute of Language Research and Education in Seoul, South Korea, and just today, I received word that I have been hired to teach English at a college in Tianjin, China -- not bad, considering I'm only 21 years old! During high school, Larrie helped me accomplish the Eagle Scout rank in Boy Scouts (I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been able to pull off the Eagle Scout project and the related things in time without her great insight). She also helped extensively with getting me dual-enrolled so I could attend GMU instead of Robinson High School for my final high school classes. My parents were very happy with her, but more importantly (since I'm the one who received the guidance), I was happy with her. I recommend Larrie Randall's excellent services."
Charlie