Why is Summer School so easy?

[Anonymous]

Say what? DS has done summer classes twice now. Against my wishes. It is really hard. You cram up a year worth of material into 8-10 weeks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:IS IT TRUE Summer school is an easy A?
if they failed the course all they need to do is show up and passing the class, if they do any work they pass with D and if they work they get C and if they all the work they get A?

Yup. All you have to do is show up. A.

I heard you just need to login and then logout for that A.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of Geometry H students think that summer course is hard and drop it. The ones who finish say that they are doing 6-8 hours of work a day. Mind you, many if the kids taking the class are rising 8th graders who need an A for TJ applications. It could be that regular Geometry for students making up a grade is an easy C.

The "hard one" is geometry honors. Credit recovery geometry for kids who failed the first time through is painfully easy. When you realize only kids who failed take it but then half the kids with it on their transcripts get As in summer school, something is weird.

I wish summer school was foundational math skills instead of credit recovery. My kids who fail algebra/geometry/algebra 2 are failing because they don't understand what a variable is and how to evaluate expressions. They can't solve a 2 step equation let alone a quadratic. Learning calculator tricks for solving a system doesn't help with future courses.

I teach HS math as well. They won’t do well in any other classes and their full transcript will show that; and often, the other classes don’t look so hot either.

I know I hate seeing F/A/F/A for algebra 1 and geometry. I know they're going to fail algebra 2 no matter what I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Say what? DS has done summer classes twice now. Against my wishes. It is really hard. You cram up a year worth of material into 8-10 weeks.

You are talking about getting ahead vs. credit recovery. Credit recovery is the easy one.