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    Originally Posted by Dude
    Our DD brought home her first report card post-skip: 4 As, 2 Bs.

    She had this to say about the social studies and science grades: "I knew those would be As, because every paper I get back says 100%."

    Well done! Didn't you supplement those courses at home because she was missing part of her classes?

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    Originally Posted by KADmom
    Originally Posted by Dude
    Our DD brought home her first report card post-skip: 4 As, 2 Bs.

    She had this to say about the social studies and science grades: "I knew those would be As, because every paper I get back says 100%."

    Well done! Didn't you supplement those courses at home because she was missing part of her classes?

    That's a gold star to you, ma'am.

    I can't take much credit, though, because after we did three hours out of the books in the first week we got them, she hasn't needed them since. Just last week she declared that they're "finally using the book" in class, but they still haven't caught up to us yet.

    I did identify an issue in social studies, though. DD was told that the geography tests were open book, but she didn't open hers, because she thought that was cheating. I told her, "they're testing to see if you know how to read a map," and that was a problem solved.

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    Originally Posted by Dude
    That's a gold star to you, ma'am.

    I can't take much credit, though, because after we did three hours out of the books in the first week we got them, she hasn't needed them since. Just last week she declared that they're "finally using the book" in class, but they still haven't caught up to us yet.

    I did identify an issue in social studies, though. DD was told that the geography tests were open book, but she didn't open hers, because she thought that was cheating. I told her, "they're testing to see if you know how to read a map," and that was a problem solved.

    Isn't that funny when you solve something so simple. My older son is a swimmer and when he first joined the team and was told he had to touch breast stroke and butterfly with two hands and he wasn't but was insisting he was (he would touch one hand and then the other)...finally I realized he needed to be told "at the SAME time".


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    Great news Dude! It is so much better to see them having to actually work for something.

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