⚠️⚠️ PARENTS PLEASE BE AWARE – CONCERNING BUSINESS PRACTICES ⚠️ (Rosemount’s Martial Arts school)
⚠️ SCAMMERS BUSINESS PRACTICES – PARENTS BEWARE ⚠️
I never thought I’d have to write something like this, but parents deserve to know what really happened. Imagine being a grown adult running a business… and choosing to retaliate against a second grader. That’s exactly what happened to my son at Rosemount Martial Arts Academy.
Before December, both of my boys were thriving. They play basketball, football, and they swim. They’re high achievers, hardworking, and always give 100% in everything they do. They were earning their stripes, passing their tests, and moving up just like they were supposed to. Everything was smooth — no issues, no concerns, no problems with effort or skill.
The retaliation only started after my older son earned all his stripes, took his test, and the owner decided to fail him anyway. We confronted him about it, and from that moment on, everything changed.
For six months, they kept auto-drafting $200 every month while refusing to give my second grader any stripes, any testing, or any progress at all. They held him back on purpose — not because of his ability, not because of behavior, but because the owner had a personal issue with us.
When I finally confronted him about why my youngest son’s progress has been completely frozen for the last six months while we continued to pay, he gave me the biggest load of garbage I have ever heard. He suddenly claimed that the "curriculum has changed." We were NEVER made aware of any curriculum change—it is just another absolute lie to justify his actions while advancing brand-new students past him.
To make it even more insulting, he then tried to tell me that my kids need private classes to get caught up! It is a straight-up scam to suck more money out of our pockets. What "changed curriculum"?! They have been teaching the exact same moves to the little kids, the teens, and the adults for the last two years straight. They all do the exact same things, but he expects us to pay extra for private lessons just to get the stripes our kids rightfully earned.
Here is the real secret to how they keep a good rating: they pad their reviews using people who are coming in on state-funded programs or free promos. Those families get free uniforms, free gear, and free classes, so of course they are happy to leave 5-star reviews! Meanwhile, they target and financially exploit the independent families paying 100% out of pocket. They charge us for absolutely everything: $200 a month for tuition, $145 for a uniform, $145 for gear, and $60 every single time for a test. It is pure financial exploitation. They drain full-paying parents dry while playing games with our children's progress.
We officially canceled our memberships on June 11, 2026. The second I did, he retaliated by instantly deleting our profiles and locking us out of the Spark Member app so I couldn't download our payment history or records. He even deleted our reviews in the community portal to hide what he's doing.
This man is running a business that exploits families and plays games with children's emotional well-being just to get more money. Do not trust them with your kids or your bank account.