regardless of age I wonder due to lots thread here and real life.
my daughters freind goes to infant school-with a no homework policy-it feeds into a junior that does better in sats than our dds primary which has lots of homework from reception up.
a few schools round here have varying homework levels and varying results.
I know a few people who do loads extra at home.
I have done a little extra with dd on subjects shes struggling with.
private schools-have smaller classes so therefore do they get extra help and better education due to class being small?
Im on a usa education forum and theres a lot of parents over there who do afterschool education in classical subjects like latin and extra maths ect.
Some kids will be just be born clever.
Others need to work at it.
other kids late bloomer-clicks later
some kids need extra help.
at gcse/alevel we widly encourage our kids to try best, work hard aim for good grades.
but pre that if someone mentions
they doing extra then they considered as pushy.
looking at entrance tests for grammer and independants at 11+ and the common entrance exam at 13 -it appears that they need lots of additional help with that to get up to required standard, especially if in state and dident go to prep.
but we accept the extra work then as its purpose is to get them into good senior school and hopefully bright future.
but if a child goes through state school with large classes will they always be at disadvantage. .
does doing the extra =good results?
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mam29 · 21/08/2012 14:26
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