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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the PP who said no to my son for summer geometry. In addition to teaching science in college, I also know quite a few friends' kids who took summer geometry. Overall, miserable experience - no one liked it. I actually want my son enjoy and like math, I want him to be great at geometry rather than checking a box. He also does competitive sports so we have other things planned for summer. I do not see any benefit of him taking geometry in summer. However, I understand some parents want to do this, possible for very good reasons. It might work well for your child. I share my story here because I have learned a lot from this board, I would like to give back.[/quote]
One of very few good reasons would be because the kid has already taken a full year worth of geometry in an enrichment program outside of school and would find it pointless to repeat a less rigorous school based version for a full year. Ideally, FCPS would allow them to take a test and test out like other more sane school systems normally do. But no, due to the ridiculous rules and regulations at Gatehouse, kids apparently should suffer through more than a month of watered down summer geometry to get to skip it. Because of course that is the only path.[/quote]

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