Wow. My parents wanted us to get all As and Bs. If we got a C, we had to spend more time studying and less TV time (only screen at the time and no cable yet either).
I don't even view science fair projects, etc as "family projects". I view them as child-projects that require more supervision and guidance from the parents than is seen in normal work.
I'm not sure what our local high school is doing with grading and grade point averages. When I was in high school, our school didn't weight grades for AP or honors classes and we had an 8 point scale 93-100 was an A and so forth. I remember college applications always asked for an unweighted GPA. However, I didn't like that we had an 8 point scale and other schools had a 10 point scale. It'll be interesting to see how much it has changed when Samantha starts school.
9:40am is really, really late to be starting school. I can't believe they would even consider starting that late-- and I'm not even a morning person. It would be a child care nightmare for many parents. I don't know that I'd want to leave my middle school kid home alone a couple of hours every morning.
That is the way it is at YDS's school. A school where 99%, perhaps 100% of the parents are college educated (most with post graduate degrees). Although, some do not speak English, they are highly educated. There is arguably sometimes too much parent support at home.
OTOH, at ODS's school they try to have very little homework as there is a significant percentage of the parent population that never graduated from a high school and a significant % that don't speak English. About 30% of the kids get free or reduced meals and don't have the parental support at home to check their homework ( they are out working their second job).
The schools are in the same school district and are about 2 1/2 miles away from each other on the same road.
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I'm the one that originally made the statement about teachers needing to see kids' problem areas.
How harshly are we taking.
I'm not sure what our local high school is doing with grading and grade point averages. When I was in high school, our school didn't weight grades for AP or honors classes and we had an 8 point scale 93-100 was an A and so forth. I remember college applications always asked for an unweighted GPA. However, I didn't like that we had an 8 point scale and other schools had a 10 point scale. It'll be interesting to see how much it has changed when Samantha starts school.
9:40am is really, really late to be starting school. I can't believe they would even consider starting that late-- and I'm not even a morning person. It would be a child care nightmare for many parents. I don't know that I'd want to leave my middle school kid home alone a couple of hours every morning.
That is the way it is at YDS's school. A school where 99%, perhaps 100% of the parents are college educated (most with post graduate degrees). Although, some do not speak English, they are highly educated. There is arguably sometimes too much parent support at home.
OTOH, at ODS's school they try to have very little homework as there is a significant percentage of the parent population that never graduated from a high school and a significant % that don't speak English. About 30% of the kids get free or reduced meals and don't have the parental support at home to check their homework ( they are out working their second job).
The schools are in the same school district and are about 2 1/2 miles away from each other on the same road.
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