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[quote=Anonymous]We declined ESY the year it was offered. I think he was bridging form 3rd to 4th grade. We live in the McLean High School pyramid.  The school offered was Flint Hill in Oakton.  There are dozens of ES's that are closer to our house.  It would have been a 45 min bus ride from our home school.  Summer school is half day.

He needed reading and there are three hours of summer school.  They would not guarantee that they would use the reading program he currently was receiving ("It depends on the teacher and the other kids in the class as to which reading program would be used.").  The reading program would be for one hour each day.  One hour would be for math remediation- which he did not need (he qualified for Algebra I Honors in 7th grade and is currently acing Algebra II Honors in 9th grade).  Another hour for social skills.  He is shy and that may have helped, but he did need not a social skill class (his brother has been in one -for years).

So, an hour and a half round trip on the bus, one hour for reading, one hour for math, one hour for social skills = 4 and a half hours a day for one hour of reading remission in a program that may or may not be the one in which he currently was progressing. For four week out of the 11.  We hired a one on one reading tutor three times a week instead for the entire summer- and used our vacation budget to do it. [/quote]

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