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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 8th grader has tests coming up and is working on a science project. I suspect that he will be busy through the last week of school. [/quote]

Same here, IDK what schools people are talking about where there is nothing going on.. supposedly in this same school district.  Are schools in the same district really this different in terms of pace and curriculum, or this is about honors and regular classes or AP?   My kids are in honors and AP and there is a lot going on in MS and HS in last 2 weeks in terms of finals, projects, tests, etc. [/quote]There are fluff projects to eat up the time and so the teacher doesn’t have to teach for the part 4 weeks.  Make a music video, draw a cartoon, write a children’s book, etc.  There is no new learning.  There is no exciting lab.  There is no new concepts being exposed to.  It might as well be art class rather than science. And, the civics teacher just gave them work on one speech and then sit through listening to 30 of them.  This eats up weeks of time.  The teacher doesn’t have to teach anything for these last 4 weeks. They use icivics, Kahoot, world a to z, or play some gambit. All fluff.  Teacher is on easy street.  The English teacher dumped them off at the library to get a book for the next 3 weeks to read.  No packets.  No vocab.  No learning.  [/quote]

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