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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't. [b]We supplement heavily even with our kids in school[/b]. We have actually been finding it easier to do this now, because there are so many online options offering free or nearly free opportunities. Both of us have post graduate degrees and are more than capable of educating our 6th grader. Our older kids are in college and we are supplementing for them as well.  Is it ideal or what we would choose if there were no pandemic? No, but extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.  [/quote]

Why do you do this? If your kids are getting such a subpar education, why don't you find them another school?[/quote]

private schools is still more expensive [/quote]

I am the OP of this comment. Our older kids attended private middle and high schools and our youngest was scheduled to attend private middle but we opted to keep him in public for now due to the pandemic. Supplementation is not all "academic" but it is educational. For example, our 6th grader is currently participating doing a reading group of the book Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, he also does Brain Yoga on IGLive with Jason Reynolds every Friday and the writing prompts with the Library of Congress.  He LOVES astronomy and all things space, so he has been attending events at Udvar Hazy since about 4th grade, right now they are all online, and they are offering so many, but so are other museums, he has participated in programs at almost every planetarium in the country since March. He has an online Spanish tutor that he has been working with for 2 years. In addition to these things which are fairly consistent, we will alsolook for random programs that he is interested in, JHU CTY programs, Minecraft coding, book clubs, religious study, history programs, honestly the options are limitless. He is currently not interested in studying an instrument, but he has a rudimentary understanding of reading music and will be encouraged to take some type of music lessons. We make sure that we are hitting the basics (or what we consider basics), reading, writing, math, science, history, philosophy, music, foreign language, world cultures. I hope this answers your question.[/quote]

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