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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,
I've got a daughter who is a freshman in college now. We dealt with this all through high school with various subjects mostly in math/sciences.
There's really only 2 choices; either you try to learn the stuff to help, or, you hire a tutor and pay crazy money.
In our school at least, the material is extremely difficult, the pace is very fast, and the amount of material each week is very high.
If your kid struggles in certain subject areas, my advice would be to get on top of it before they get too far behind.

In our case we did the tutor thing for awhile but ran out of money (we wiped out our savings) -so I was the one spending my weekends with my daughter helping her for years.
It sucked. I wasn't doing anything "for" her-this was a collaborative effort to understand the readings or figure out the math.

Going to teachers for help is of very limited help--they have hundreds of students and can help with specific questions but not at the overall level my kid struggled at.

She's in college now and doing just fine on her own.[/quote]

My DC had horrible Biology teachers in a very prestigious HS magnet program. (As I am writing this, I know other parents and students in the program will recognize which program I am talking about).

The prescribed textbooks were terrible too. I decided to teach my child myself, mainly because I had no idea where I could line up a tutor so quickly from. The vetting process for a tutor itself is a long drawn process, in my opinion, and the cost is exorbitant too.

In the end, I studied and learned and taught my child. I figured out the best textbooks for each unit, bought them 2nd hand from Amazon and devoured them, I scoured the internet for the best educational videos and tutorials, I collected the best quizzes and study material and put it all together.  DC actually used what I taught to teach friends and peers further solidifying the understanding of the concepts.

It took me HOURS to prep for each unit, but I figured out a few things as a Humanities major. The easiest and most interesting science is Biology, and it is easy to learn. It also attracts[b] the most inefficient teachers[/b] in HS for some odd reason. AND that there is a whole bunch of easily accessible resources available online. You can do it. My kids found me to be the best and most  interesting teacher for both Bio and Chem.

Kid is a Bio major now.
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