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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How on earth are you getting your middle and high schoolers to sit in a Chair and concentrate and do an assignment!? My 15 year old would never in a million years do something that I requested her to do like this. And that is even with Ritalin. What is it like to have a compliant child!?[/quote]

I'm the PP who wrote the long post above about IXL.  My kids are neurotypical.  And as I said, I was unable to get them to do the IXL independently.  When they were assigned it as summer homework by their public middle school, I had to put them on our boring desktop computer and sit on a couch behind them and look up every 5 minutes or so to make sure they were doing the modules.  That's before I was investigating remediating their skills.  The remediation was a late-pandemic move when I realized that both of my boys lacked important math concepts.  And my older one was heading into high school honors math and I didn't want him to stumble freshman year.  I personally had a math failure in 7th grade that pushed me back a class year.  I also was one of those kids that never internalized the math despite getting good grades.  I did terrible on the SAT math and that cost me some pride and probably scholarship money.  So I was committed to doing better for my kids.[/quote]

Oohhhhhh.  Neurotypical. Yeah this would not work with my kids. Also, good for you. [/quote]

lol good catch. BUT - I will say - it actually is helpful to know that a LOT of parents (even of NT kids) are befuddled and upset at the way math is being taught. It has been helpful for me to compare notes with them because it helps me better understand what the teachers are doing. [/quote]

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