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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP. It's 49 pages. I went back and counted. It coincided with the other AP class assigning 15 problems each of which had 3-5 sub problems, and the other other AP class assigning 6 pages of problems, and the English class having something due, and the science class having a quiz. So yeah, it's a lot to cover in two days.

[b]For those of you saying it's a college level course - it is. If you think back to college though, you weren't in class from 8:10 to 3:00 5 days a week, and then doing ECs after that was over. [/b]

Anyway, my child wasn't complaining about the amount of reading and note taking, she wanted to know what the point of it is, when the teacher is not teaching anything, they are not going over the material in any way, and they are already weeks behind in a class where there is a test that covers a certain amount of material that they will likely not get to. If past is prologue, they will end up 8 weeks behind, which is pretty much an entire quarter's worth of material (16-20% of the test, per AP). [/quote]

This exactly. There is a lot more fee time in college during the day to complete 30-60 pages of reading. And generally you have an entire week to do it and notes weren’t required. Professor would lecture on the material you read at the next class.[/quote]

I taught at the University level. I assigned reading but I did not lecture only on the reading. Students were expected to do the reading so that they could fully engage with the lecture. I started class asking if there were questions from the reading and covering any points that might have been problematic for students, but my lecture complemented the reading, it did not cover the reading. I flat out told students that they could not get an A in my class without completing the reading and attending class. There would be topics discussed in the reading and in the lecture that were only covered in the reading or the lecture. Tests were drawn from both the reading and lecture, if you are only doing one or the other, you might earn a C. The end goal of the class was to be able to combine the material to develop a fuller understanding of the class material.

Reading notes might be assigned to ensure that students are paying attention to the reading because the teacher is not going to review all that material in class. Your child should ask the teacher about how to use those notes so that they better understand the why. 
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I have also taught at the university level, and yes, there was reading and lectures were based on the assumption that everyone has done their reading. But, there was a lecture. There is no teaching here, as far as I can tell. The kid is learning by herself, from YouTube videos. Which is of course, additional work on top of whatever is going on in her classes. Doesn't help that this is not the only where she is teaching herself the content.[/quote]

Has it occurred to you that just maybe your child is not "getting" it?  Or, may not be sharing everything going on in the class with you?

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There’s nothing to get because it’s all self taught so far.[/quote]

Oh, are you sitting in the class?[/quote]

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