Anyone has experience with SummerEdge summer camp at McLean School of Potomac?
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mouseJerry
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| Also, if anyone could share their general experience with McLean School of Potomac for inattentive ADHD / EF deficit kids, many thanks in advance. |
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| Hopefully someone can respond who has recent experience but my son attended about 10 years ago for an LD and it was extremely helpful and worthwhile. I’m sure a lot has changed in a decade though, so hopefully others will chime in. |
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I just reread your post and wanted to clarify we did the summer program only. |
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Age/grade? |
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8 year old 2nd grade. |
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| It's nice it's a "normal" non-special needs appearing school with a full complement of extracurricular activities. Teachers are mostly nice and supportive. They do not push students and standards are set low which is good and bad. If a child is struggling it is a good place to be because everyone else is there because they were or are struggling too. Your child won't see as far behind which can be really helpful when they are coming from a high pressure school where everyone is an overachiever. Would recommend for most kids but not really for a 2e profile. |
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Which summer program did your son do? Age/grade? I saw on their website that some of the teachers at McLean School teach SummerEdge camp - is that the case? |
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It was a writing program. I just looked at their website and it was similar to this one. https://www.summeredge.org/program/intensive-programs-lower-school-writing/ |
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| We did SummerEdge for my dyslexic daughter (about 1 grade level behind in reading) and it was amazing. She actually enjoyed going and she made great progress. It was taught by McLean teachers as well - and I'm pretty confident a large majority of the teachers at SummerEdge are McLean teachers. We have friends who have children that go there and they'd disagree about low pressure/low rigor. They have 2 children in Upper School and both are taking AP/Honors classes and even in middle school I would say they were pushed. I know for certain one has ADHD inattentive and trouble with organization and the middle school experience was life changing for their son who needed more support and strategies. |
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| We did the math camp last year and were disappointed. It felt too scattered and unorganized. Not sure my kid got much out of it (but fwiw, they did enjoy it!). |
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| We did the McLean summer camp a couple of years ago. The groups were run mostly by teenagers. I agree that it seemed unstructured. My younger child enjoyed it because apparently they got to play computer games, but my older child struggled. |
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Yes, useless waste of money but YMMV. Echo some of the other comments that it felt scattered, unorganized and like a money grab to take advantage of parents who are desperate for help for their kids.
Do the Lab school one. |