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[quote=Anonymous][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]

PP, um. Didn't you support this? I mean, you paid for the tutoring or did it yourself. You did this. But that teacher at TJ teaching math is just getting by because it's TJ. That's not right. We should expect more.[/quote]

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