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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of defensive parents. However you rationalize it. It is tutoring. If you think common core (from which VA standards are based) isn’t teaching math standards at fast enough rate, and you use that as an excuse to pay for classes that do, that’s tutoring. [/quote]

Ignorant poster, nobody thinks FCPS isn't teaching math standards fast enough! From the many posts it's clear they are not teaching [b]well [/b]enough, and actually do very little teaching! They actually rush through a bunch of topics, do not teach them effectively (using worksheets, group lessons, and pretty much anything other than teacher involvement). Because they haven't taught them enough, they have to "spiral" around to them again, year after year! So you expect most kids to just get it through osmosis? That's why there's a huge business in private tutoring/teaching/enrichment centers everywhere you look. It speaks to the large elephant in the room, namely that there is very little teaching being done in elementary and middle school! (And high school too, but hopefully by that point many kids should be able to at least figure out how to learn on their own).[/quote]

+1.  In the last few years, AAP math for my kids has been rotating through:  The teacher center, where they might actually learn material, the "game" center, where they do some sort of vaguely math related game, the "technology center" where they are stuck doing Dreambox, the "sudoku center", where they do sudoku puzzles, and the worksheet center, where they do worksheets.  My oldest is in 6th, and I'm still seeing a lot of this.

Mine are in AoPS so they can actually learn math.  It has nothing to do with learning the material earlier or faster, since the AoPS track has Algebra in 7th.  I've recognized a lot of kids from my kids' AAP center at AoPS, and I would imagine that a bunch of other kids are doing Kumon, RSM, or Mathnasium.  No one is trying to get ahead in the curriculum, and we all accept that our kids are going to be bored out of their minds during school math.  At least this way they're getting a solid foundation.  [/quote]

Same here. My kid is in a Flipped Classroom nonsense for Math. All the actual teaching is being done at home and at aops. I have no doubt my kid would struggle or lose interest in Math by HS  if we did not do this. [/quote]

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