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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you are focusing too much on homework. My kids are at one of the mentioned schools, and 6th grade barely had any homework. They also don’t want you using tutors. They teach the kids and work with them to learn the skills needs to be successful. Those skills include managing homework, learning executive functioning skills, what works for them as far as homework organization and spacing out, etc. A tutor is just going to act as a crutch and allow your child to evade learning these skills. The school will work with him to identify his weaknesses and improve. A tutor will be counter productive in the long run [/quote]

Wish our school would say this or realize how much tutoring is going on before 9 thing grade.  Partly driven by poor foundational teaching or curriculum. Just skips right to word problems and never did spelling, grammar, math facts or tables. Even social studies is in helter skelter order not chronological for a topic like immigration.  Only the top students or ones with tutors or tutor parents are cohesively putting anything together.[/quote]

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