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Eliminate all thought of coordinating with the teacher. They won't understand, and [b]above all, they are not experts, YOU are. Elementary school teachers are kind and nurturing, but they're often not the brightest or the most academic-minded people. [/b]

No coordination is needed anyway! Elementary school is the only time that homework does not count towards grades, and elementary school grades are not important unless you are preparing your child for a magnet test in 3rd grade or 5th grade. Look it up on the MCPS website, this might be of interest to you if you're in a crappy cluster. There are workbooks on Amazon to help prepare your child for the modified Cogat test MCPS gives (there's also a Raven's advanced matrices added in 5th grade). If your child works on math and reading at home, there is no reason they won't have MAP scores that are several grades above grade level every year, as well as straight As.

So you can ignore the homework if you wish, teachers will rarely complain that it's not finished.

I "afterschooled" (great term, by the way!) my first child because he was GT/LD - gifted, talented and learning disabled, and our otherwise excellent elementary could not really cater to all his needs. I just created my own academic curriculum, as well as occupational and physical therapy activities after school and on weekends. My children also go to their native language school on weekends and have quality music lessons.

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Wow. You're terrible. [/quote]

PP you replied to. I agree I made a generalization (after 8 years of dealing with elementary school teachers) and that a few are wonderful. However none of them will take kindly to what OP wants to do, and who can blame them? They're working hard, and OP is basically telling them that it's insufficient.

So my advice is to not involve the school or teachers at all. Some of us have had to supplement/enrich/afterschool our children for various reasons, and we've just done it ourselves.
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