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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are they still doing the Young Scholars Program through the Saturday School?

YSP in 3rd-5th was the best science my kid had until Honors Physics in 9th grade. She was lukewarm on the math part (although she found the enrichment more fun than compacted math), but absolutely adored the science lessons.

None of it really tied into the curriculum, probably because there really wasn’t much of one to begin with. But at least it let her know that science existed, was interesting and fun, and didn’t have to be an afterthought. [/quote]

Pathetic that that’s where you had to go to get exposure to science.[/quote]

Yep. We did lots of fun stuff at home, of course, but school was pretty much a wasteland, science-wise. Even the little bit they did do in elementary school sort of petered out after about January or February every year.

But the YSP program was invitation-only, and it took a ton of digging to even figure out what it was before we accepted, so it's hardly a universal option (if it even still exists). I fully expected my DD to want quit after the first year, once she started at what was then called an HGC in 4th, but even there the science was pretty minimal. Possibly a bit more interesting, but still minimal. So we dragged our butts out of the house for two more years of Saturday mornings, all in the name of science.[/quote]

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