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[quote=Anonymous]DS will be in 9th next year.  He's a very strong STEM kid.  He also has an IEP.  His ADHD/Anxiety/ASD are what got him his IEP.  He has a few friends in school and he desperately wants to fit in.  They are taking APUSH next year and he wants to do it as well.  Even with his IEP, he's going to struggle.  He's just not a strong critical thinker that can connect the dots, recall facts from memory, and generally cannot elaborate in an essay.  He has no study skills, does not know how to take notes, or organize his thoughts.

I don't want to tell him he can't take APUSH without at least giving him a chance.  I asked him if he would be willing to work with a tutor over the summer to preview the material, get an understanding of what would be required, see if he really wanted to commit to this for a full year, etc.  He agreed.

In my mind, I would find an MCPS APUSH teacher looking to tutor over the summer.  I would ask this person to cover some but not all---whether they went deep and didn't cover all the material or went wide and didn't do as deep a dive as during the school year, I would leave up to them.  But I recognize that they couldn't cover the entire course over the summer.  I would have them assign readings, teach note taking skills, how to make flash cards, teach how to write the DBQ and FRQ and then review the essay responses.  I suppose it would be study skills using APUSH as the content.

If, at the end of the summer, the MCPS tutor said he was ready for the class, he would take it for credit next year.  If the teacher felt he was not ready, he would take H.US History 9.  Does this sound like a reasonable approach?  I get that DS wants to do what his friends are doing but he doesn't understand that he's at a different starting point then they are.[/quote]

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