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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does Curie offer Summer classes?[/quote]
Yes, Curie offers a wide range of summer STEM courses.  We are enrolled at Curie during the year for academics, and DC wants to continue challenge during the summer as well, but do something more interesting.  We enrolled in Robotics & Arduinos last summer, and this summer looking forward to Product Design STEM Camp.  There is also the Creative Writing Bootcamp, where as part of final project DC wrote an amazing story about visiting Galapagos Islands with their favorite Marvel characters.  [/quote]
Thank you we will look into those classes right way. DC is a hard core marvel fan too. lol.  [/quote]
We are very happy with Curie, but almost every Curie class is full. Please be considerate to existing students and don't make it more crowded. Please consider other enrichment centers.  [/quote]

About how many total kids go to Curie?

About 20[/quote]
times hundred.  Hundreds start off over their upper elementary/middle school years, but far less than a quarter complete the entire program due to fit, fast pace, and advanced curriculum. It's mostly math until trig/early precalc, applied stem science, and english. [/quote]

It's honestly too bad these options aren't provided by the school system. Clearly there are kids who are interested.[/quote]

Or parents who are interested. I know that some of the kids in enrichment programs are there because they want it and enjoy it. I also know a good number who are there because their parents require it and they don't particularly enjoy it. I have chatted with some of the parents of kids in DS RSM class and they have said that their kid was there because it was important but the kid hated it. There are kids who are choosing to attend enrichment, kids who go because their parents make them and are ok with it, and kids who go because their parents make them and hate it.

I know people don't want to hear this but there kids who are not accepted into TJ because their essays are "I don't want to go to TJ" and not because of random lottery picks. They have done great in all the enrichment and accelerated math but they were not there by choice. The kids know that they can not answer the essay question, flub the essay intentionally, or write that they don't want to attend TJ and that their parents will never know. I saw this first hand grading AP exams and the like.

It is easier for the kids to let parents be outraged that their child wasn't selected for whatever reason the parent can conjure then it is to tell their parents that they don't want to go to TJ.

Heck, at this moment there is a parent asking for suggestions for daily tutoring for their 6th grader so that they can do well in pre-algebra or maybe skip straight to algebra in 7th grade on this forum. [/quote]

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