Millions of people have suffered from IXL every year. It's so unbalanced with the amount of points you get getting lower the closer you are to the end, and the amount of points lost getting higher. Around the end of a IXL lesson, you gain 1 point per question, and loose around 10 points per question that you got incorrect. On commonsensemedia.org, Mrs Dina said "This site is absolutely outrages! I have had 5TH GRADERS start crying in frustration over this site. The main problems are it does not encourage students to learn, the point system is unfair, and is destroys a students self esteem. I have had many of my students tell me "ixl makes me feel dumb...". And I'm not very surprised after I used it myself for a while I noticed the frustration and pain students have to go through. First off it is boring there is nothing fun about this and when students do complete an ixl all it does is them a sticker they can use as their profile picture. This reward does not make students excited and determined to complete the ixl. Which brings me t my next topic, this point system is very frustrating and upsetting for the students. Ex- a student just hit 70 percent they answer and there is a typo students score-68 percent. This is what causes students to start yelling or crying it's just awful to see students so distressed. I have seen many sites that when a student submits an answer and it has random letters numbers symbols ect. It has an option that says "sorry typo" so that students don't have to lose 10 percent of their progress. And finally the students self esteem, any student would not feel great if they get a question wrong. But to get a question wrong and then have an explanation not even explain to them what they did wrong only makes students feel worse. I have seen that many of my students get questions wrong on ixl and ask me "why did I get this wrong" and I tell them "try reading the explanation first" an they say "I have but I don't get my mistake". I read the explanation and the students do make a point these explanations are wordy and are hard to understand even for a teacher. Ultimately, I feel like this is your worst option if you are finding an educational site for your students. Even though it's free it's horrible." CristyDawn rightly states that "It's absolutely infuriating. My twelve-year-old daughter thinks it's awful. Especially the challenge mode. It is so unforgiving. Even if you get one question wrong you have to restart from the beginning. This is especially annoying when you are doing difficult alegerbra problems."  We the teachers, students, and people in the USA need to band together and ban this terrible sight.