“Students in New York City’s largest school district are so bored by the DOE’s dumbed-down math curriculum they read novels in class, parents say.
Families are forced to shell out thousands of dollars for tutors or flee in search of more challenging programs, parents say.
Parents in District 2, which covers most of Midtown, Lower Manhattan and the Upper East Side, are demanding accelerated math classes in elementary school and geometry starting in middle school to keep kids on par with their peers elsewhere in the city and country.”
Read the full article: https://nypost.com/2025/06/07/us-news/nyc-parents-pay-2k-in-tutors-to-make-up-for-math-classes-leaving-kids-bored/
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