Are you currently debating about whether summer school is the right thing to do for your child? Some kids have a negative association with summer school, viewing it as having a negative connotation. For many students, they believe that summer school is a punishment, or that it is only for students who are doing poorly in class. If these are the thoughts that your child is having towards summer school, it is no wonder that they don’t want to go. However, summer school programs can be both innovative and fun when you choose the right one.
When you are considering the option to send your student to summer school, consider some of the benefits that they will receive, including:
Emphasis on the Basics
As classroom sizes continue to rise, many students do not get the personalized attention that they need to excel in school. Or, they may simply be too shy to ask their questions in a classroom setting. No matter what the reasons for attending summer school are, students will benefit greatly from the experience of reviewing the basics of their education. As the basics are stepping stones to most educational system, if they are not fully understood, your child can begin to fall behind, causing frustration. Summer school is a prime opportunity to re-learn and to focus on the specific basics that have been causing trouble.
Class Credits May Be Offered
Some schools work on a credit system, requiring a minimum number of credits to graduate and move onto the next grade level. Summer school programs often offer the ability for a student to gain class credits. Class credits can allow your child to take additional elective courses during the regular school year, to potentially graduate early and even to avoid an issue with the minimum in the event of an unforeseen class failure, requiring the student to re-take that particular course.
New Learning Environment
Sometimes all a student needs is a change of scenery in order to excel academically. A summer school program can offer an alternative learning environment to foster a student’s retention of material. Also, many summer school programs offer social features and benefits that can offer even more to the student’s overall experience. If the summer school experience is positive, it can have spill over effects into their traditional school year’s results. Students who learn to associate learning as a positive experience have been proven to post higher grade point averages than students who don’t.
Focus
Many students are facing distractions, whether they be the environment or a potential learning disability in traditional classroom settings. For example, many students face challenges learning due to ADHD. If this is the case, students may be better suited to learn in a summer school environment or program. By taking fewer classes, it may make it easier for a struggling student to learn. Also, with smaller class sizes, students may be able to get more of the individual attention they need for a subject that they are struggling with.
Continue the Learning Process
Many countries offer year round schooling, with breaks throughout the entire year in comparison to a shorter school year and a long summer break. For those students who have a long summer break, it is often challenging to go back to school focused. Summer school programs present the opportunity to extend a student’s learning throughout the entire year while still offering many longer breaks.
Raise the Grade Point Average
If a student’s grade point average is not as high as desired, strong summer school grades offer the ability to raise them. As school is a cumulative process, a poor history of grades or even a few poor courses dispersed over the school years can cause a student’s grade point average to be lower than desired. Grade point averages are extremely important for those students who have the desire to attend college upon high school graduation. So, with improved grades for summer school, the student’s overall grade point average stands to improve substantially over each summer that courses are taken and scored well in.
If you are considering summer school for your child, evaluate programs that are customized to their particular learning needs. Excel Students is a comprehensive summer school program that tailors their program based on the specific needs of each student, evaluated and then chosen by their respective parents. Their program can focus in on the topics/standard that your child is weak in, on the topics/standards that are coming up for the next school year, or they can combine the topics/standards from a list of identifies areas of improvement and upcoming topics/standards for a fully comprehensive summer school program.
The process of the Excel Students Program is quite simple, yet effective:
1. An assessment of the child is completed, looking for their strengths and their weaknesses.
2. The assessment results are reviewed by the Excel Students team of professionals along with the parents.
3. A customized summer program is developed.
By offering a customized summer school program, students will be able to learn the subjects that are the most important as well as they will be able to receive the type of education teaching style that is the most conducive to their overall ability to retain the information. As you are searching for a strong summer school option, take these observations into consideration.
While students may not look favorably upon the idea of summer school, the majority of professional opinion points to the numerous benefits that are found from attending summer school.
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Sometimes you can take technical college courses for credit. You should check with your school. They will be the most able to let you know what options are available for you.
hmm i dont know what part you live in but ive done both summer school in a class and online and i live in duval county.
if you fail classes here, as long as you take summer school OR take the classes over (i think your sons too young to do that, thats high school)
anyways i dont see why they would say that, UNLESS your son goes to some sort of magnet or advanced school like i did where you could not retake classes.
i would call your local school board and get info and question this, maybe make an appointment and take it up with a higher official at the school board.
but than again, schools in florida ARE terrible.
sorry ALSO the only ways that i know of how to actually hold someone back is if your child fails the FCAT. if he attends summer school, im PRETTY sure they cant do that, ive never heard of it before.
Wow, tough question.
One thing I thought of (I'm math oriented), is why would it be four schools…if you move him to a private school for first grade, wouldn't he be able to stay at that school for second grade (making it just three schools in four or more years). I know you are moving and that would affect public school boundaries but the boundaries for most private schools are much larger (really limited only by your willingness to handle transportation issues that don't arise in public school)!
Another thing to consider…are any of the other parents considering private school for their child…if your child could go with even one friend from kindergarten that would make the transition that much easier.
My son attended three schools in five years…a private preschool in Colorado for a year, a private preschool/kindergarten here (Texas) for three years, and now a public elementary school. I remember being concerned when I decided to let him stay in the private school for kindergarten because I knew that with the geographic dispersion of the school, if he didn't get admitted to the special "magnet" school (public school that serves the entire city), he would lose most if not all of his friends when he went to a different private or public school for first grade!
Fortunately, he got into the special public school and he started 1st grade with six of the kids from his kindergarten class in his classroom (including his two best friends) and another 15 or so (out of 25 total) at the same school. He adapted to first grade almost immediately and is getting a fantastic educational experience to boot!
I don't think three or even four different schools would necessarily be a bad idea…but I firmly believe that first grade is the most important grade! For me, if the choice was stability (and convenience) or stellar first grade experience, I'd have to go with the educational experience. We're just over three months into first grade and I can't begin to describe the amount of growth and learning I've seen in my son because he is having a beyond stellar first grade experience with classmates that are his academic peers! (our neighborhood school is about 65% English as a 2nd language). I (and other people I know) "checked out" of school in the first grade because we were bored…and while I managed to check back in during college, I lost a lot of years because I wasn't encouraged (or even allowed) to push my limits in first grade! I have no doubt that if my son was in the neighborhood school, he'd already be bored (we had a few problems with that at the very beginning of school before the teacher had the chance to do assessment testing to figure out where to start each child). Instead, he's already on 2nd grade math and his reading level has jumped nearly a full grade level in just three months because he's at a school that challenges students to learn and advance!
Different schools of engineering have different policies on "core" science subjects. Some accept general Physics" courses, for example and even send their students to be taught by the university's physics/chemistry/math departments. Other schools are organized so that Engineering faculty teach the core subjects from an engineering point of view, so that they might require "Physics for Engineers", etc, and accept no substitutes.
you have a W regardless if u withdrawl by the deadline or not .. its if you change your classes you dont get a W but you cant drop it after the date .. you might want to talk to your teacher see if she will drop you or you will fail .. explain your situation
I got kicked out of school in the ninth grade and got my GED in training school and went to college four years later. With my ninth grade education I made a 4.0 my first semester. I worked full time as a waiter throughout college, owned a snoball stand and worked part-time at a movie theater. I always took a full load in college. Sure, I was burnt out but you get used to it. I don't come from money so I had no choice but to work. My parole officer made me pick up the second job. I really had no choice but I managed to make it. I have my degree now and it wasn't a bed of roses getting it. I didn't have to study much in school. The point is to GO to class. Work sucks but when you have no choice it's not too bad. Good luck