<p>@amtc - Thanks so much for sharing your D’s perspective!</p>
<p>I wonder why MENU is so hard? Both DH and I have engineering degrees from top schools and never had a hard math class. I wonder if it involves lots of busy-work or if the difficulty is from something other than that. I also wonder if there are kids who love the program, or if it’s just hard for hard’s sake.</p>
<p>I’m going to urge D to try to talk to the folks running the program, and hopefully some who are in it, and ask some very specific questions about the time commitment. I don’t feel I can tell her not to do it, but I do want her to go in with her eyes wide open and with full knowledge of how/when to drop out if she decides to.</p>
<p>I’ll also mention the scheduling issues to her. I know she’d like to always have at least one dance class each quarter, but I’ve heard that the beginning classes are really hard to schedule so maybe that’s a consideration that would persuade her not to add MENU to the mix.</p>