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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the most challenging classes in the first two years? Any advice for a freshman to help them manage this? Should you buy textbooks for the classes where the teachers don't teach?[/quote]
Challenging classes for DC are math and comp. sci.  The rest are just 1 year science classes simply compressed into 1 semester per science subject.  Not a challenge for kids with stamina and focus.  If that is challenging, then taking notes in class is a good habit to cultivate.  DC doesn't complain that teachers don't teach. But if that becomes a problem, have the kid should go straight to the source:  ask the teacher how best to prepare for tests.  And, if that doesn't produce positive results, email the teacher yourself and ask how you can best support your child at home.  S/he would hopefully recommend strategies.  [/quote]

We have gotten a fair amount of negative feedback about the Precalculus teacher in 9th.  We found a tutor that my DS meets with once every week or two and now he has an A, so I don't think it's that the material is too difficult but that [b]the teaching isn't fantastic[/b]. Every other class has been great including non-magnet classes.[/quote]
I have heard this as well.  Can you elaborate on how the teaching is not fantastic?  And, does that correlate to poor quiz performance?  Does the teacher not give adequate homework to prepare?  Or, is the in-class preparation not sufficient?  Are quizzes unnecessarily long for the allotted time? [/quote]

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