How do you supplement if public school education not meeting student's needs?
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Anonymous
| If your child is not academically challenged in her DC public school, particularly in math and science, but you don't want to move from DC and are reluctant to do private school, how have you supplemented? In ways that are engaging and also beneficial for college applications. She is entering 8th grade so we have this year to decide if this can work or we need to do private for 9th. Math and science are priority areas. Thanks. |
Anonymous
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This NYC based program is worth knowing about though not cheap. Kids can take just one course, or many.
https://spcs.stanford.edu/stanford-online-high-school |
Anonymous
| We did a lot of Outschools during the last year. Especially on Wednesdays when there was all of 20 minutes of actual work. |
Anonymous
| PP here - Sorry, didn't read the whole post. Mine's much younger. |
Anonymous
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What school does your child attend?
Deal offers math acceleration for the handful of kids who need it. It's about 10-20 per year out of the 550 in each grade. My kid finished Algebra 2 in 8th and will be taking honors pre-calc at a private school for 9th. The private gave her/him comprehensive placement exams in Geometry and Algebra 2 and she/he did very well on these tests. ELA is another story but that's why we're switching schools. |
Anonymous
Ugh, can you elaborate more? We're going into Deal in a few short years and offhand comments like this get me worried. |
Anonymous
| We supplement with a private school math class over the summer. |
Anonymous
Deal ELA is horrific. My kid read one book in 7th grade. None in 8th. A few chapters but that was all that was required. She/he wrote a paragraph or two all year. That was it. Got about a 100% grade each quarter. Foreign language (Spanish) was also really bad. Kid had to take placement exams for private and is getting no credit for 2 years of Deal Spanish (despite again getting around 100% each quarter). Not surprising as they never learned grammar. The pat tense was introduced (for the first time) in the the last month of Spanish 2 (late May of 8th grade). None of her/her friends going to Catholic or private are getting language credit either. It's a total waste. Math is strong and science is decent. ELA and Spanish are crap. |
Anonymous
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previous poster again:
"pat" tense in my post is of course, "past" tense. |
Anonymous
Thank you, this is helpful. If not read books...what do they DO in English class? I assume this was regular Spanish and not the Spanish for native speakers? We're coming from Bancroft and I haven't heard that the advanced Spanish classes are awful at Deal. |
Anonymous
| My DD is 7th so not too far behind yours. We supplemented with private math tutor during the year and classes via private school during summer. She enjoyed the summer courses a lot. We may consider private for high school because of the vast difference in writing and composition. However, I really don't want to spend the funds if it can be avoided. |
Anonymous
Outschools? |
Anonymous
| New poster. Outschool.com is a very useful web site for all types off enrichment. It ‘s sort of the AirBnB of ES and MS teachers to moonlight. My kids, ages 9 and 11, have been taking great art, music and grammar/writing classes via Outschool site for over a year. |
Anonymous
OP here - thanks for all the ideas. We have a private math tutor that helps her with accelerated math. What private school offers classes for kids other than their students? I would like to explore that. |
Anonymous
OP here - this is outschool https://outschool.com/. We have done a few - my younger daughter is taking an intro to architecture next week. These probably won't be a good fit for my older daughter anymore. My younger daughter struggles with math so she has been taking classes through splashlearn/splashmath with small online classes. |