Reply to Why do so many high school students have tutors nowadays?

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Why do so many high school students have tutors nowadays? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]In addition to what is mentioned above, early tracking puts students on a course that continues through high school, particularly for math. Most kids on a GT  track take Algebra in 7th and Geometry in 8th. My older son did, and got straight As in those courses without any help. However, now that he is a junior (and a young one at that), AP Calculus is difficult and he gets tutoring once a week to help.  Should  he be in a lower math class?  Maybe. But he was put on this path years ago. It made sense back then, but has become increasingly difficult each year.

Conversely, I removed another kid from 7th grade algebra because I was worried that he wasn't ready to get it. That put him on a different path. Now, as a 9th Grader taking Geometry, he finds it boring and gets straight As studying very little. You just don't know how it will pay out.

But you can't compare it to what happened decades ago. When I went to high school, AP Calculus was the highest math available and the best students took it senior year.  Now there are sophomores taking it.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics