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[quote=Anonymous]I wonder if part of the issue at a school like McLean is that a decent percentage, it would be hard to know exactly how many, of kids have been attending enrichment and those kids pick up the concepts in a class quickly because they have seen it before or because they know the old material cold. The Teacher moves at the pace set by those kids. The kids who did not go to enrichment and are less well versed in the material end up struggling.

I am thinking about math in particular. DS attends RSM, he started to do so in 3rd grade with distance learning and math being a joke. He liked it so he has continued, he is in 6th grade now. He ended up joining RSMs math competition class because it was fun. Math Honors at RSM moves too slowly for him because he has seen many of the concepts being taught in that class in his math competition class but there are sections in his Math Honors class that have been extended by a week or two because he peers are struggling with them. I can imagine a similar situation playing out in a HS math classroom except if half of the class has been in math enrichment since ES, they would all be picking up the new material quickly and the Teacher is moving at that pace.

The parents worrying about tutors in MS and HS are the parents that choose not to do enrichment in ES. An understandable choice, I get prioritizing other activities, but the long term effect is that their kids are now effectively behind the percentage that choose enrichment. Now the AP classes are a struggle for some kids because there is another group that has already seen the material.

Meaning, it isn’t the Teachers fault and thye tutor is effectively an attempt to even the playing field.  [/quote]

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