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The following covers the 16 that are in grades 3-12
English up 25%
US History up 27%
I have been teaching/tutoring both of those subjects to supplement the school assigned work and zoom/Google meet teacher led lessons
Math up through Algebra 2 and Trig up 12%. I am no use with Calculus or Statistics, I never took Calculus and had one semester of Statistics 50 years ago and don’t remember much.
Science DOWN 15%, The children, especially 7-12 grades are suffering by lack of labs. Just reading the textbooks and watching videos, does not make up for the live experiments in labs. It is very boring without this. In discussion with a neighbor who is the Science department head at one of our town’s middle school, this is definitely consistent with results of public school students who are distance learning or in school 2 days a week this year under the hybrid model. None of our town’s public school students attend live more than two days a week.
Art and Music cognition are at grade level. Instrument instruction is lacking. We have two baby grand pianos and a couple of electric keyboards. Youngest daughter plays well and tries to teach a bit, but we have no ability to teach strings, horns or woodwinds or the desire to listen to endless hours of practicing scales….VBG
these academic gains seem consistent with those white, upper middle class students learning at home; who have professional, educated parents with the time and interest in teaching. The students suffering are those of limited means;
They have limited computer resources, no private study spaces, parents not educated and able to teach advanced subjects, adults having to go out to work leaving limited supervision during the school day.
I have been told the students with the lowest scores are often only children, starved for social interaction that comes at school.
We have made a family decision to keep the children in the compound this entire school year.