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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another question - last night they barely touched on math and science.  How has instruction been in these areas? I know they are mixed with the general middle school population, but in practice do the magnet kids tend to be in higher level math and then are they grouped by grade level, so they end up together a lot? [/quote]

While the magnet kids tend to take advanced math and science together, the math and science instruction at Eastern in general is not strong. My DC has very high grades in both classes all 3 years, yet feels her foundation is weak. [b]Many Eastern students who do well in math end up having a difficult time with high school honors math[/b]. [/quote]

I don't know 'many' Eastern graduates, but for the dozen I do know this is straight up BS.[/quote]

This was my experience with my daughter, who went to Eastern and then returned back to her home high school.  She ended up doing fine but we had to hire a math tutor.  Her math foundation was not good.  Nothing's perfect -- Eastern's a great humanities school.[/quote]

The year my DD was at Eastern, the advanced math teacher taught the entire probability unit incorrectly, gave a quiz with incorrect answers.  It was the end of the year and the teacher "fixed" the problem by giving everyone an A on the quiz but never acknowledging the error or re-teaching the unit.  I always felt bad that all those kids went on to the next level of math not knowing what the hell they were doing.

I think this is more of an individual teacher thing rather than an Eastern thing.  Our experience was at the HGC/elementary level in a west county cluster that teachers inside and outside of the magnet didn't really understand the math they were teaching.  It was very formulaic and wrote with lots of mnemonics about how to solve problems and not much understanding, and I say that as someone who hates C2.0 because I do think at some level you have to memorize math algorithms.

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