Reply to Langley Academic Rigor

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "Langley Academic Rigor"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Current parent of 6th grader.  DS has always been in the accelerated group and is taking pre-algebra this year and is on track to take geometry in 8th grade.   I actually think Langley's math program is quite good.  DS has always gotten 9 stanines on the math ERBs and I attribute at least some of that to the math program at Langley.  To be blunt, my experience has been that the parents who complain the most about the school's math program are (ironically) math -challenged themselves.  I am in a quantitative field professionally and not so humbly submit that I am in a better position to evaluate.  Many of the parents who complained typically took no math in college and some never even took calculus in high school.  honestly, many of these parents are so removed from math, themselves, I think it best to discount their views.  My perspective is that the kids who were in the fast track math at Langley went on to do very well in high school at places like STA, NCS, TJ, Potomac, GDS among other schools.  The 6th grade pre-algebra class is excellent at Langley.  Granted my DS is a very math-oriented kid and I actively engage him in math subjects, but he is getting a lot out of the math program at Langley and I think the school gets a bit of a raw deal when people claim Langley has a math problem.  Just wanted to offer another perspective.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics