We are now working through Julius Caesar.

[conuly]

I'm not sure if one scene a day is a slow pace or a rapid one, but it does mean we'll finish before we go see the play on stage, so that's the pace we're taking. I *am* sure that our new faster pace of algebra will kill us, but I looked at our schedule and realized that we either speed up and take the Regents in June, or she ends up with a month of dead time before she takes the Regents in August. Neither option is great, but I thought it was better to try for June, and if it doesn't work out she can always take it again in August.

Talking about enrichment summer school now. I want Ana to take a full year's worth of science and take the Regents, but that'll eat up a minimum of three hours a day, plus commute time. If we don't have buy-in, it's not worth doing it. I promised to pay her, but her argument that summer is her free time and she can see her friends is a valid point (although I generously didn't counterargue that mostly she lies around and plays Minecraft). So it's sort of up to her. I just wish I'd found an optional summer school, um, option that was closer than Queens - all the public options are only for failing students.

Comments

[kyrielle]

If you don't get buy-in from her on that, are there any online options that would be worth the effort? (I'm suspecting not, because labs, but....)

[conuly]

That's a possibility, but I personally don't want to do a year's worth of any course over the summer - I want a professional teacher to do it. And if it were an online course, I feel like I'd have to do a lot more sitting on top of her than if all I do is drag her out of bed and make sure she catches her train. We've been doing earth science a bit haphazardly throughout this year, but we didn't do labs because set-up is a bitch. That's why I don't want her to have to repeat it in the fall.