Deal kid is floundering in private high school
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| Like seriously, they believe that a discussion of history of race that is any more complicated than "MLK, peaceful disobedience, kids holding hands together," is CRT. |
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| No, I think many parents would just like their child to read a single book in its entirety in 8th grade as part of ELA requirements. |
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I'm reassuring OP that her kid can hang in there and achieve in this environment even if Deal did indeed suck during the pandemic. |
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Huh?! That's odd. My 6th grader read "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry", "Beowulf", "Tuck Everlasting" and a novel in verse about a Hmong girl (forget the title) in its entirety last year at Hardy. The assignments did cover the entire set of books. Was it not so at Deal? But I do agree that reading is pretty minimal at DCPS. |
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Agree this is an odd comment. |
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Nope - mine read "part" of Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry - and I think parts of Beowulf - but not the complete set of 4 books - that we did purchase - was an "on the fly" change...and they were not assigned full books |
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| Deal doesn’t prepare you for HS or the real world which is based on merit and not some lame IB grading scale the same way you haven’t trained your child that there are losers and there are winners. Now you know which one your child is because their parent also happens to have the same self entitled level of self-loathing. Hard work gets you where you want to be, not being some entitled upper NW brat. |
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Interesting. Does it depend on the teacher? My 6th grader had homework twice a week with questions that covered each book in its entirety, a project to write a chapter of a novel in verse, a podcast interview with a character in Beowulf, a multiple page point of view essay on a character in RoT,HMC and reflections on immortality for Tuck Everlasting. There was more but I forget. This was in Hardy. |
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| 8th grade (at least my kid's team) did not read anything near full books either-they read excerpts only. I know because my kid struggled mightily last year (depression) and I sat and helped him with homework almost nightly for the entire year. If this wasn't the case I would have never known. |
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No, none of this at Deal. hardy handled remote learning much better than deal. deal was a sh$&7t-show. |
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Then you aren’t the person we are responding to. |
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Deal sucks.
Your parenting sucks. |
Anonymous
But the point is a good one. Tony private schools aren't magic bullets. Coddled kids in cocoon environments, with no more than token poor and lower middle-class peers on scholarships, don't necessarily put nose to the grindstone, hustle to get ahead, or appreciate their opportunities to learn like public students might. This is true matter how terrific the teachers and curriculum. After almost a decade in DCPS, we learned not to rely on school inputs to provide serious humanities challenge long ago. We enroll our children in a variety of on-line workshops and classes each school year to beef up and round out the education on offer at our neighborhood MS. We started hiring a tough writing tutor with another DCPS family last year. We require our kids to read at least one challenging novel weekly, mainly classics we discuss with them, on top of what's being assigned at school. We shut off the Internet in the afternoons, to promote reading. We have them earn "reading points" they can cash in for adventures of their own choosing, e.g. horse-riding lessons and zip lines. We opt out of PARCC, which we consider a waste of time, in favor of having them read during testing hours. In the summers, we send our children to several weeks of academic sleep-away camps. We spend 8-10K per kid per school year to supplement, a bargain compared to Sidwell, GDS etc. |
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That's similar ot why my kids did when they were at Deal, but that was pre-pandemic. |
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No. |