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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's such a battle.

Just getting the middle schooler to show me their assignment is a battle, to be honest. The teacher even said at back to school night "I won't be able to look over every problem on every problem set so please go over your student's homework with them."

I feel like that is way too much to ask of parents. How does the teachers know parents can even do the math? I was a great student and some of the new methods are confusing to me.

I know my kid could do better with more checking and more help, but it's not a fight I can handle on a regular basis.[/quote]

And what happens to the student if the parent doesn’t understand the math and can’t check it?   [/quote]

This is us. We got a tutor once kid started HS. At first it was to fill in gaps as it was Covid and we were worried about missing material. Then we kept the tutor, not b/c kid was having problems, but it was the fine-tuning.Teaching to check work and why important. And frankly, the classes at the HS are just too big. Too many kids and not enough one:one to explain things the way each kid needs. The tutor does this, gives tips/tricks, and reinforces the lessons. AND then kid has someone else to be accountable to, instead of me.

I'd rather not pay the additional money and have the schools do what we expect them to do but, given the sizes of the classes and various capabilities of the teachers (though in our case, our teachers have been pretty good across the board), I just realized it's simply not possible to get my kid the math foundation needed w/o some extra help and instruction. They don't meet every week and sometimes it was only a few times a quarter. Right now it's every week b/c we are at a higher AP level class and it's hard. Really hard.

And there is zero possibility I can understand the math. I tapped out long ago. My DH may be a bit better than me but my DH and DC working together on something like this is . . . . not possible. :) Nor desired. By any of us.[/quote]

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