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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I graduated high school 15 years ago now and we had Math 30-1, 30-2, 31, and 33. The 30-2 kids were all seen as remedial and picked on for this. 33 was for people who failed other classes. 31 was basic calculus. I took both 30-1 and 31 and still ended up in an Arts degree. Leaving more doors open isn't a bad call.
Also, I was in school at a time when being popular also meant you had to maintain a decent grade average. People who didn't were just losers who no one would consider seriously. I partied a lot and didn't take it seriously, but still completed these courses.
The courses weren't that hard though. Frankly if your kid can't get through math 30-1 maybe you should consider a brief kumon course or something. I always laughed at the kids in Kumon too, but isn't the goal to set your kid up for the best possible life? Sometimes you need to get them to do things they don't necessarily want to do for that to become reality. Also I would suggest quite heavily that what was "cool" for us 20 years ago or more, is almost certainly not what defines cool or popular now.
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Honestly, I encourage you all to think super unstrategically and put your kids who are terrible at math in 30-1 to kEeP tHeIr DoOrS oPeN. It's a great idea because, as we've determined, it's completely irreversible and impossible to just pick up math 30-1 later in life if you're incapable of schmoozing your way into the university course you need.
I'll love if you encourage your kids to make their own path harder and more of a struggle as that just makes my kids' lives better and easier (relatively speaking). Hard work for the win, amirite?
Also, do you honestly think a tutor and additional math help hadn't occurred to us? We had a literal teacher come to our house two times per week starting in elementary to help her. We took her out of French Immersion (which she was amazing at) in grade seven or eight just because it was complicating math that much more for her, so we had to write off the continuing French education just so she could barely squeak by in math. That was heartbreaking to us and my wife's Parisian French family.
In grade 12 we discovered Math 30-2. She gave up half her summer last year to take it as we were preparing for her to have to take it a second time. Now, she is in the post-secondary program she wants. She doesn't want to be an Engineer. She's not going to be your dentist. She won't be articling under Locke in an accounting firm. This kid has retired from math and I raise my glass to her for that.