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[quote=Anonymous]I partly agree with this. I have a kid at TJ, and the math department teachers generally suck. So we use tutoring. To get Bs. And one semester, a C+. And yet, my kid is learning something. Math is not the subject he is at TJ for. And by TJ standards he’s a weak math student. And yet, at the end of sophomore year, got an 800 on the SAT math II, and a 780 (1 missed question) on the regular SAT math. Perfect PSAT Math sophomore year. Since the math teacher don’t get a lot of credit on this, I have to think some combo of great peer group and very high expectations/ hard work/ the requirement from homework through the test to apply math in novel situations. Even in the best school some teachers are duds (but not all: my kid has had uniformly excellent English and history, and excellent bio and physics, but not Chem). And parent participation plays s huge role. But so does peer group, and the expectations of teachers, peers, parents and the school. [/quote]
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