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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the ES summer school was meant to be more fun learning [b]so that the kids shored up skills and did not regress as opposed to learning new material. [/b]We have had friends send their kids and tell us that their kids really enjoyed SOAR and that it was fun.

And I do know people who use it as summer camp, my friends who stay at home send their kids because it is free and it gives them 4 hours of down time. It breaks up the summer for their kids and they have the afternoon to go to the pool or hang out at home.

But I don't think SOAR is suppose to be super intensive or anything like a regular school day. [/quote]

That's ESY-summer school for kids with IEPs

[b]SOAR-summer school for kids in general ed, usually the ones who flunked their SOLs[/b]. They are absolutely supposed to be teaching information--the information that they didn't learn during the school year. Why they are wasting what few instructional hours they have on laptops, I have no idea. [/quote]

A HA! I figured thats why my son was invited to SOAR. He flunked his SOLs.  He also has an IEP though, but he doesn't require enough support to be eligible for ESY. [/quote]

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