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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD has an 8th grade  teacher who just can’t seem to get it together - she posts assignments with wrong due dates, designs exams that kids can’t complete during the assigned time and then makes them take it through lunch or after school, makes very confusing mistakes in handouts etc. In a recent test, she figured out the class average was too low so she removed questions from the graded test and plans to retest on those sections. DD who is all-A student is falling behind. We waited it out the entire quarter but things don’t seem to be improving. She teaches the Honors Geometry class so it is not easy to request another teacher. DD is understandably frustrated.

How should we handle this? Is it just an issue of managing expectations? Or, should I take it to the principal? Should we just get a tutor and consider it done?[/quote]

Geometry Honors, if taught properly, is a challenging class. Our child excelled in it (in 7th grade), but many of her classmates struggled, particularly those not-quite-in-the-top-3% but parents-want-them-in-the-top-10% who took Algebra in 7th and Geometry in 8th.  In our district, this is due to overacceleration, expected by parents and executed by school policy.  Too low of a placement requirement in 6th for 7th grade Algebra, and generally too low of a level of preparedness, and a general lack of math interest by many of the children affected. Combine this with a traditional, textbook-based, daily homework, difficult test, rigorous approach and you end up with a lot of suffering: an estimated 20-40% of students spending 1.5h each day on homework and yet scraping by with B's and C's.

I'm a strong proponent of math acceleration for gifted and motivated kids with a record of math interest and math EC activities (like DC :-)) and I have always thought that the people warning of overacceleration are just dumb and mean and equity-obsessed libs, but seeing this experience of some of my child's friends has been giving me pause. There I said it.[/quote]

Is there a point to your post or did you just need a space to humblebrag about your allegedly gifted child? [/quote]

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