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[quote=Anonymous]OP's child is in 7th grade not 5th - we found that year incredibly frustrating.

They read all of two books for English, foreign language moved way too slow, and because even Chemistry depends in part on math, the spiral model is really just repetition to get kids who did not do so well in 5th and 6th to either get it or leave before 9th. Bio of course is different. Also not a fan of the move

But if you have a child in 7th grade doing well in precalculus who is not able to learn anything new in Physics much less Chem, if you are a math/science parent and your kid is also, watching them have to do the same amount of work but learn nothing new is demoralizing for everyone.  Same is true of Saxon - the repetition is unnecessary for some kids and 30 problems a night with only 15 on new concepts gets tiring.

Finally, mastery defense is just a way to fool kids into staying until 8th so that BASIS gets the  money, and it puts unnecessary pressure on kids who want to stay on Distinguished Honor Roll - at first we liked the emphasis on grades, but it got to be too much.  Most of the highest performing kids left for high school - and our LEAP class only finally put them in the same section in 8th grade.  Now there is no LEAP, and they immediately split up for high school except for math.

The "we dictate and you fill in the blanks on worksheets" is passive learning and tougher for many kids and boring for most.

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