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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] As an Asian, I am getting used to the blame on us as above. My son is in AAP IV, 3rd grade. We moved from MA due to dad's job relocation when DS was in 2 grade. We didn't send him to any test preparation to get into AAP IV. Currently, he is not taking any classes out of school except drawing and tennis. The fact is, he is struggling in advanced math. I let him do Beestar to improve problem solving skills. that's it. I learned from several other parents in his class that their kids go to Kumon and Russian math school. I believe that some Asian kids are doing the same. But the parents who told me these resources their AAP kids use are not Asian. But I do observed an interest thing, they are all immigrants. I learned recently that there are Russian School, Netherland school....... where people send kids to learn math, reading and writing after school or in the weekends. Instead of blaming the immigrant parents including Asian, Russian,etc, maybe we can put the public school education quality under scrutiny. There are many threads on this and other forum complaining that public schools are not teaching spelling. The reading class at many school in FCPS is a joke. No textbook, it has pros and cons, which made teaching and learning highly depend on teachers' capability. Math education in public schools has been a big problem for a long time. People born and grown-up in US may feel everything is good, but immigrant parents experienced different education systems may think:"This is not the effective way teaching math. No, what the school teaches is far from enough." I once discussed with my supervisor and senior colleagues about this, they told me that the school education they had when they were children was difference. It seems that public school system once provide a better, more rigor education but now it's failing. I want my son to have a happy childhood. But I am also started to consider reading and math extracurricular classes now. The only way to make students stop taking extracurricular course is to implement enough academic rigor in public school, hold high standard for both teachers and students. [/quote] As an immigrant parent, I agree that the rigor in the classrooms here pale in comparison to the ones we had growing up elsewhere. I came to the US when I was in 11th grade. I did not study until I got to college, because pretty much everything covered here, I had done somewhere between 8th and 10th grades. I try not to worry about it much for DD (because it was and continues to be an extreme amount of stress placed on kids), but I have friends that go back home to visit, and find that their so-called advanced kids here, are years behind their peers there. And there is so much less emphasis on giftedness, and more on working hard.[/quote]
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