[rdsmommy]

Originally Posted by ECingMama

Since this is my daughter's first year in public school, she's not used to the culture. And this particular school does attrack kids who want to earn 4.0s. My kid wouldn't be interested in that even if she'd always been at public school. She's fine with a mix of As, , and Cs. Most of her classes have 18 students. Her English class only has 5. She can't hide in there, so she has an A.

Oh. Yale. Wow. A friend went there. I'm not sure she could have gotten in without playing soccer. It's next to impossible. I hope your daughter finds a way into the school where she'll thrive, Yale or not.

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Were your students able to finish the classes in a year? My son was scamming me early on. It shows that he did a class if he just opens it and leaves. I didn't realize he wasn't doing the class for a bit. Now he's behind. He prefers if I sti with him for 1/2 or more of the lessons. I don't mind, but I don't want my daughter to get behind in high school classes.

So my question is: if she does whatever they automatically assign, will she finish the year's work?

Ds did finish most of his classes. The AP/Honors classes have a lot more sections to do especially in Chemistry which he didn’t finish because he was getting stuck. I switched him to the regular Chemistry class along with reading a Chemistry textbook about half way thru so he didn’t quite finish. He did finish his history, English, and Spanish classes. In the high school classes there is a quiz after each section so you can tell based on the grade they get if they are actually doing the work. Ds was only able to skip labs because those are printed out and done on paper.