> Almost every school we have talked to about helping our kids has been unsure of what to do. The public school system I went to in the 1980s offered summer cl

> Almost every school we have talked to about helping our kids has been unsure of what to do. The public school system I went to in the 1980s offered summer classes for students who wanted to take an extra math or science course, not as remedial education, but as a replacement for a year-long course. I did math one summer and physics another. The high school I went to offered classes for the few advanced math students who wanted more. We had one course in linear algebra and another differential equations, and I think the latter counted for college credit. I also went to a state-funded summer science and math summer camp for six weeks at one of the state colleges. If those don't exist now, I'll blame tax cuts and our modern (post)Reaganomics switch away from New Deal social programs.