skipsmash wrote:
Dd has just got her maths gcse mock result which she's pleased with.
She wants to do A level maths. Nearly all of her friends are having private coaching.
She sees coaching as cheating. I worry she is at an unfair disadvantage by not having it.
I don't know what to do. Despite her comments, I know she would happily accept coaching if it was organised.
She is good at maths, though.
Your DD is doing well by her own effort and the teaching they are all getting in school. Her friends are either only at the required level with the intervention of private tutoring on top of the first two - or their parents
believe that they wouldn't achieve the required level without the additional tutoring.
Your DD will do fine (why do you think that she will be at a disadvantage, btw?).
Her friends might not, further down the line, though - are their parents going to pay for private tutoring for A levels and at university? I do rather hope their parents are totally wasting their money, though, and the young people concerned would do just as well without the extra input.