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[quote=Anonymous]Don’t know if my kid’s experience might help you. I would suggest to work on math supplementation now.

My child came from a lackadaisical formerly highly regarded charter school that lost its shine during the pandemic. My child always got good grades in elementary but when they got to Basis the pre-school year testing showed them as quite a bit behind their peers in math. My child struggled for two years barely passing math. But their standardized test scores went up by 30 points!!! We are glad we are at Basis even though it has not been easy to catch up. We discovered lots of gaps due to pandemic learning loss fundamentals- and due to the low expectations elementary. 
My child is finally more caught up through a combination of:

-Khans. We worked through the free online grade level courses & pinpointed areas of gaps. We did this during the summers.
-Requesting the school give access at home to iready / IXL etc.
- Taking advantage of free tutoring & summer school for multiple years. 
-We should have started to do the extra practice problems earlier. They just needed more practice/ repetition. 
-We worked at home to memorize times tables. Lackadaisical HRCS hadn’t bothered & we didn’t know that hadn’t happened until we were smacked in the face with a kid learning algebra & struggling with basic division.

We considered testing for learning disability but felt the growth in standardized test scores just showed that the instruction has been inadequate before.
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