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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS breezed through Algebra II in 8th and signed up for Functions at Blair, but ended up dropping it early in the semester. He felt that he could follow the classroom material just fine, but the homework load (3 hours/night for him) was killing him. I was so glad when he decided to drop; that level of stress isn’t good for any 14 year old. It stressed ME just to think about what would happen if he missed a week of school because of Covid or a death in the family. How would he ever catch up?

Some people in this board have posted that the homework load is more like 1-1.5 hours per night. FWIW, my DS knew a lot of the kids in his Functions class from previous classes, and he thinks that many of them had already been exposed to the material via math teams or private math schools. I’m not surprised if those kids need less time for the homework. [/quote]

Yes, there are definitely kids who were exposed to the content ahead of time in my kid's year. It was hard. But, there are plenty in the same boat new to the stuff. Mine found that the teacher was super helpful and kid would go in at lunch sometimes.  Also developed some good friends working on problem sets together. Learned to tune out the pre-exposed kids who acted like hotshots. [/quote]

Were any of the pre-exposed kids helpful peer tutors? [/quote]

Don't know anything about that but my guess is that 90% of the kids in that class had either already taken Algebra 2 or had outside enrichment at RSM or AoPS. It would be very rare for anyone to be in that class cold and survive.[/quote]

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