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[quote=Anonymous]It really depends on what the school is doing. Some are quite good at differentiation, which can take various forms--sending the kid to a different class for a certain topic, assigning different books or lessons, online supplementation, leveled reading/math groups, projects where kids can do more or less based on their abilities. And some schools or teachers just are not good at this.

Perhaps even moreso, it depends how your kid is doing. Some kids are pretty happy to go along with the rest of the class even if they catch on a bit quicker than the others. Some get bored are troublemakers. Some will take opportunities to differentiate whenever possible--reading harder books, doing more research, writing more detailed papers. And some will slack off and not push themselves. But if your issue is that your kid seems happy and you are happy and you just wonder if they could be learning a bit more, I think that's a time where a bit of outside supplementation (frequent library and museum trips, maybe a more academic summer camp in an area of interest, fun afterschool classes) might be just as rewarding. If your kid wants to learn calculus, it doesn't really matter much whether he does it in 8th grade or freshman year of college. Social skills, writing skills (something that very few schools teach well--even those with lots of high achievers), creativity, tolerance, are all good things to work on as well.[/quote]

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