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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ADHD daughter is in Algebra I Honors in 7th. It's A LOT but she loves math and wants to study computer science. She scored 98% on IAAT. We planned to have her only take Math 7 Honors due to her executive function deficits but her 6th grade AAP teacher talked us out of it. She has no tutor and has a 114% as we enter Q3. Seems we would have done her a huge disservice had we not let her take it. It's really the only class she loves. [/quote]

This is a lot to do with your kid’s teacher’s grading. Ours allows for nothing over 100, no test retakes, and is a really harsh grader. There are infrequent grades, as well, so brining up a lower grade is much harder.  A teacher allowing extra credit and grades to inflate above 100, means that those kids will very likely get an A because bringing them down to an a- will be much harder. My niece had a similar experience. She was given weekly quizzes, tests, quizzes - even homework - could be retaken, there was homework that was graded 2x a week, etc. If an answer was -3 and my niece put 3, she was given partial credit.  Extra credit was offered and having a grade over 100 was easy.  My kid’s teacher gave one test each quarter. There were 12 questions on it. No extra credit ever and no partial credit on any problems. There was homework but it only counted with your participation grade which was 5% of the grade total. Quizzes could be retaken but only if under an 80 and the new grade could no be higher than an 80. This was several years ago, and my kid did get an A, but I know that my kid’s and niece’s experiences were very different. [/quote]

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