- Although I wouldn't expect any to admit it, it feels like a some of you are going out of your way to chastise me because of the private school tuition. Casual recs of 40+ hours of tutoring, as if that doesn't come with substantial monetary and schedule obligations is a bit obnoxious.
- Nearly all of you are low balling how behind he is. As I said above, I would not be surprised if there are 40+ tutor hours and months of work in geometry (and elementary Alg) gaps to tackle.
- Last I checked, most students learn in the classroom. Many of you seem to live in this hyper-competitive bubble full of Organization Kids that teach themselves everything and don't need traditional lectures. If he doesn't take the audit seriously then I guess he doesn't want to go to a university. It's a perfectly reasonable opportunity to close the gaps and improve his math subscore by 6-8 points.
I’m a high school student who tutors (mainly middle school kids) for $12 an hour. We’re all very cheap cause we’re lucky we’re getting paid at all!!
@VMT If he’s too immature to take the audit seriously you think he’s mature enough to take a once a week tutor seriously? You think he’ll do the tutor’s homework and study recs? I’ve tutored before, half the students don’t do anything outside of the hour you’re with them. End of the semester they’ll claim tutoring is pointless because their 3.0-4.0 didn’t fall from the sky.
In the first place, it is not the responsibility of a school district to prep your kid for the ACT or SAT, unless your state uses those tests as part of its state testing program.
Secondly, I think you maybe mistaken about when the Geom that is needed for the ACT is learned. In our HS, Coord Geom is primarily taught in towards the end of Alg II, other “advanced” Geom is included with Pre-Calc Trig. Unlike the SAT, which only contains a handful of Alg II problems, the ACT requires knowledge of more advanced math – thru Trig.
Of course, your state standards maybe different than my state. But seriously, if the state covered the standards for Regular Geom, it did its job. And if I was GC, I’d push back to.
Oh, gosh no. Wait a couple years until college!
Has the school agreed to the audit? If he audits the entire class, I don’t think there would be anything wrong with the GC mentioning it in her rec letter, that he audited a class to improve basic geometry and excelled in the class that doesn’t show on his transcript. It may also give her son a lot of confidence.
My daughter took two science and two math classes as a senior in high school. She wanted to and really didn’t have any other electives she preferred, so why not. If this students has room in his schedule, why not?
“3. Last I checked, most students learn in the classroom. Many of you seem to live in this hyper-competitive bubble full of Organization Kids that teach themselves everything and don’t need traditional lectures.”
Well…that is the Honors / AP environment. I certainly don’t like it and my kid isn’t particularly great at self teaching. She spends every single night doing hours of homework and (in my opinion) has missed out on so much of high school “fun” because she is taking this path.
I’m just afraid you think your S is going to get so much more out of the advanced class, but in our little “bubble” my kid gets MUCH LESS teaching in her Honors and AP classes. My D went to the math dept for help during the second week of school because she wants to “stay on top of math” this year. The head of the math department - after about 2 minutes with my D - told her to drop the class. That “things move quick and if you can’t grasp the concepts from the examples in the book, I doubt you will be successful in this class”. Yikes!
MODERATOR’S NOTE: I think the thread has outlived its usefulness. I am closing it.