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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those to do academic enrichment because of the lack of public school rigor, how many hours a week do your children spend on it? I’m interested in providing my kids a well balanced education: academics, arts and athletics and some free time as well in their day.

I don’t want them to have to sacrifice everything else in my children’s childhoods for the sake of academic supplementation, just because public school isn’t providing the education that it should. [/quote]

RSM is a 2 hour class plus homework. It takes DS about 30 minutes to complete his homework. He participates in a STEM Club that meets every other week for 90 minutes. They rotate through different subjects. It is fun with a little bit of lecture but mainly project based learning and not all that academic.

As I said, my son does Scouts and a rec sport as well has RSM. He spends more time with soccer then he does with math (5 hours or so) and almost as much time with Scouts (2 hours a week, more one camping weekends) as he does on RSM.

And you don’t have to do anything. He asks to do the math so we send him to math. The vast majority of kids at RSM and similar programs would be fine if they did just the math at school. Some might end up a year ahead of where they were but most are probably on the same pace they would be without the program. I appreciate that it is providing a challenge for my son and that he enjoys it. Most of his classmates are not taking RSM or AoPS and are doing fine in the same math class that  DS is in. I like that think that he is strengthening his foundation and will benefit from the class but I would guess that he will end up in Calculus with current classmates who never went to RSM. I don’t think it is a make or break thing. It makes DS happy and it challenges him so it is worth it to me. Would he be fine without it, probably.[/quote]

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