I am updating here, mostly so that other parents down the line will have a picture of things that can happen…
Math is still slow and boring. My son said they were spending so long on things he learned in 8th grade in a day. There are some drop downs from the honors section now in his math class and he has been tasked with helping them because they are “clueless” and he’s always done with work early.
I am planning to speak to the math teacher during conferences. At this point, I think the dean is a dead end but I am hoping the math teacher might let him work ahead or at least provide more challenging problems for homework. He said the other day while polishing off his homework in the car “I have literally done this SAME problem a million times.”
I continue to be confused as to why in all the other classes he has they are going at lightning pace and jamming the kids so full of memorized info but in math, the comment I always get is “the first part of the year is always review, the pace will pick up.”