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The most horrible thing that has ever existed. That one thing that ruins your social life FOREVER. Also another way for parents to torture their kids without any physical abuse. Kids who have not yet enrolled in Kumon, if anybody even mentions it to you, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE AND NEVER TURN BACK.
Mother: *On the phone* Yeah, I'm thinking of sending him/her to Kumon, their grades aren't very good...

Kid: *Overhears* AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Runs as far as their legs can take them*
kumon by The Adorkable One October 18, 2013
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kugmo • kumon • Kummoji • Kumori • Kugo • Kugoburga • kumo • kumorieing • kumoriexists • Kumoudi
the worst thing in the world. you could be out enjoying life but NO, you have to sit down and finish 4 booklets with ten pages of stupid math problems. yeah that's right 400 QUESTIONS.

IT DOES NOT HELP. AT ALL. it's so repetitive doing the same booklets 6 times over and your parents say "it's for your own good, you'll pass this way." IT DONT WORK. the instructors suck.

TO KIDS WHO DONT DO KUMON IF YOU EVER HEAR KUMON COMING FROM YOUR PARENTS MOUTH RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!! IT WILL DESTROY YOUR LIFE, IT TAKES UP SO MUCH TIME ON TOP OF ALL THE SCHOOL WORK! YOU WON'T EVEN GET TO ENJOY YOUR LIFE BC OF KUMON.

I'm even scared of my dad who is forcing me to do this. I wanna quit but ill just get yelled at.
parent: have you finished your Kumon?
kid: no
parent: *knocks fist on table* let me tell you, if you don't finish, you will not eat, you will not sleep, you don't wanna know what I'll do to you.

kid: *visibly shaking*
parent: finish it now
kumon by lglifeisgood June 18, 2020
Kumon. Oh mah lawd, Kumon.
They start you off with little kid problems (assuming you're just. That. Stupid.), and eat away at your life slowly as you sit there in your house on Saturday afternoons, scribbling away at your Kumon packets while everybody else maintains a social life. To the Kumon instructors, everybody learns the same way. Can't solve math problems that quickly, but understand the basics of it to be able to work it out carefully? Sorry, Charlie. Let's do it again until your brain works in the manufactured Kumon way.

To the people who are not yet enrolled in Kumon: when your parent makes any reference to the place in any way, shape, or form, RUN LIKE THE WIND.
Friend: So, Cassidy... what did you do this weekend? I didn't see you all last week; where were you?
Cassidy: Oh, you know... sitting in my house, doing Kumon packets.
Kumon by Peabrain August 27, 2012
kumon is the big brother of math and the best mental torture technique, if you ever hear your parents say that you will get enrolled in kumon, you have three options, convince parents to not enroll you in kumon, run for your life, go into kumon and get mental breakdown that gets worse everyday
kumon: here easy

person: okay

1 year later....

kumon: HERE YOUR CALCULUS LAGEBRA WORKSHEET. AND I DONT FUCKING CARE IF YOUR 6

Person: *cries*
kumon by Randomduck1000 March 6, 2022
Kumon is a after-school learning club, it can help your child incre...

kumon is gay ass, it fricking tortures the hell out of your already tiny minds. It will rip away all of your social skills and you will be stuck in your house on weekends trying to catch up on all of your worksheets.

in other words, it fricking sucks.
"Hey, you ever heard of Kumon?"
"No, what is it?"
"IT'S FRICKING GAY RUN AWAY WHEN YOU HEAR THAT WORD!"
Kumon by KumonGayAss February 22, 2020
hell. kids who are not doing kumon, you are super lucky
mom: do kumon!
me: cries
kumon by the worst thing ever. January 28, 2022
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