DD14 has been struggling with Saxon 87 and because she is 75% through the book, I am thinking about dropping it and being done with math for the rest of this school year (we are finishing next month). She was going along fine with just little struggles here and there, but now, she has a meltdown everyday. It's not everything that she is struggling with either- mostly geometry problems, adding and subtracting negative & positive integers, and some of the proportions (like trying to figure out which numbers she needs to set up her equations).
I am beyond ready for this school year to be finished. I am burned out and I would prefer NOT to extend math into the summer with her. I'm just being real honest. DD14 will be attending a private high school next year and on Friday we met with the academic counselor to set up her schedule of classes. I shared very honestly with the counselor and she thought that DD14 struggles were not out of the ordinary for incoming 9th graders. The school has a program set up to break Algebra 1 into two years. She suggested DD14 go through that program. Even though it is broken up into years, she will still receive one full credit for each year. We are in NY State so she would not be required to take Regents until the end of Algebra 1, the second year. This brought my husband and I so much relief.
So now, my question for you all is, do we drop the Saxon 87 for the rest of the year and look for something online where she can go over the concepts she's struggling with? If so, do you have any suggestions? Or do we continue to painstakingly hammer at the Saxon 87 til we finish? Thanks.