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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter is taking two summer school classes in an effort to free up room in her schedule.  She is putting in real time every day to get the coursework done.  There are two elements of summer school that do seem to make getting an A more challenging from an operational point of view.

1. The semester is so short that you don’t get a lot of interim feedback letting you know you are on the right track.  Even if the teacher grades three times a week, they are grading huge batches of assignments at once so you have very little time to course correct.
2. You don’t get the advantage of averaging and rounding up letter grade from two quarters together, which objectively offers more opportunities for an “A” than if you just have one average grade for the whole semester.

I think in that sense it is definitely harder to get an “A” even if the content is not so dissimilar to the regular school year.  It just must be done much more quickly.  One class seems reasonably do-able but I think I’ve discovered that two classes at once is not for the faint of heart.[/quote]

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