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Does anyone just sent their kid to school and not supplement at home?
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Anonymous
| I find it all a little draining how much effort is going in to tutoring, Kumon, drilling, free apps, etc. Does anyone want to confess here that they just send their kids to school and leave it at that? Please? |
Anonymous
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"Does anyone want to confess here that they just send their kids to school and leave it at that?"
Me. |
Anonymous
| I confess! |
Anonymous
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We send our 7yo (1st grader) to school and do just that. She has workbooks and math computer games that she can choose to do, we go to the library weekly and let her pick books and we take nature walks and visit museums often so she gets lots of knowledge through hands on stuff. But we do those things as a family enjoyment, not as forced education. If she would rather play a game than do her workbook we dont say anything and if she would rather watch 30 minutes of tv rather than read we let her. She makes choices and asks good questions and she is a very happy well balanced child.
Full disclosure she is doing 2nd grade math concepts and reading on a third grade level in her current 1st grade year. |
Anonymous
| My child is only in first grade, but I can already see that he'll do well with nothing more than "did you get your homework done?" each night. Honestly, I see no reason to subject him to a gazillion tutors and "enrichment opportunities." I've entrusted him to a great school. I'm just gonna focus on being his mom and let them do their jobs. |
Anonymous
| Are you supposed to do something else? I didn't even know I was failing at this! |
Anonymous
| I carefully go through his homework. I know this is probably not a good idea, that he needs to learn to take ownership of his work, but I just can not help it. Knowing that there are many errors in that hw just drives me crazy. |
Anonymous
| We did nothing else and kid got into an Ivy. |
Anonymous
| Yes, nothing extra for our 4th grader. Top of her class, according to the teachers. Maybe this will change since "everyone else" is apparently spending oodles of time doing extra work. On top of homework and extra-curriculars and time with friends and family, I don't even know how kids have time for more busywork. Are these 9-year-olds going to bed at 10pm on school nights? |
Anonymous
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our 1st grader is not supplemented at home with additional math (that's what this is all about, isn't it? math specifically? How would we supplement "social studies" in a formal, supplementary way?)
I reserve the right, though, to revisit that if I sense that this spiraling curriculum spirals downward in a couple of years. |
Anonymous
| I didn't and then realized my child was falling "behind" not in the actual classwork but in the fact that her friends were significantly advanced and she said she didn't feel as "smart as them". I started working with her at home and am thinking of Kumon also. |
Anonymous
| I only supplemented while my child was at public school. This is one of the many reasons we made the move to private school. |
Anonymous
| 11:50 here - we did not supplement due to DC falling behind. We supplemented because FCPS curriculum is not challenging and not thorough. |
Anonymous
Same as this poster, except we have a boy. He loves to read, so we never have to encourage him to pick up a book, and he enjoys math. I wouldn't do anything differently unless his teachers suggested he needed additional help in something. That's one of the many reasons why we pay his school 30K per year: so he can enjoy being a kid when hecomes home from school. |
Anonymous
| Yes. We supplement in math because my kid is bored silly in class. I would say that the lack of provision for kids who need to go faster in math to maintain interest in class has been our greatest disappointment with our private school. They do a lot things really well, but are basically inadequate in this respect. |