Caroline
03-15-2008, 06:19 PM
I teach math at an at-risk public school. We have over 80% of our kids on free or reduced lunch. Our population is 95% minority. But we have a lot of great kids at this school. And many of our kids would rather be at school than at home. On Saturday mornings, the AP Calculus teacher opens up the school for kids to use the computers in his classroom, get help with classes, get help with college applications, work on SAT prep, etc.
I am new to the school this year, and I didn't want to invade his space. Yesterday, he invited me to come hang out this morning and bring my kids. So my 12 year old and 7 year old and I went over to school.
We had a BLAST! My 12 year old was just absorbing what these kids were studying. He was listening to AP Calculus Exam practice, and Georgia High School Graduation Test practice, and SAT practice. My seven year old, who is fascinated by multiplication, was working on patterns in multiplication with some of the BC Calc students. And they were just eating him up.
We had to leave pretty early, though, because a tornado watch was announced.
But, whenever we don't have morning soccer games, I think we will head back to school.
I am new to the school this year, and I didn't want to invade his space. Yesterday, he invited me to come hang out this morning and bring my kids. So my 12 year old and 7 year old and I went over to school.
We had a BLAST! My 12 year old was just absorbing what these kids were studying. He was listening to AP Calculus Exam practice, and Georgia High School Graduation Test practice, and SAT practice. My seven year old, who is fascinated by multiplication, was working on patterns in multiplication with some of the BC Calc students. And they were just eating him up.
We had to leave pretty early, though, because a tornado watch was announced.
But, whenever we don't have morning soccer games, I think we will head back to school.