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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a full time AART at our school. There are no pullouts before third grade level III.  There is no local level IV at our school.

While there was some in-class differentiation in 1st grade, there has been none in second. We asked about level II in K, they told us it would be differentiations, starting in grade 1. That?s it.  No letters home to parents about ?level II,? nothing on the report card to reflect in-class differentiation. And no in-class differentiation in grade 2.

Having a full time AART does not guarantee the type of services your school will provide. You need to advocate and ask. At the end of the day, all you can really do is educate yourself about the metes and bounds of what your school provides and fill in the gaps yourself. You can?t FORCE someone to give your DC a certain level of education at their school if they have no interest/support/resources to do so simply because you read here that some other school does have the interest/support/resources.

Given this reality, I really don?t understand the backlash I see on this forum against parents who fill these gaps with AOPS/Mathnasium/Russian School of Math. As parents, it is our responsibility to prepare our kids. Why is that a big deal?[/quote]

I have no problem with parents choosing any type of enrichment if the child wants it. I have no idea how many kids actually want to attend those programs. The few people I know who send their kids or have sent their kids have told me that their kids don't want to do the work but do it because their parents make them. I read all the anecdotes here of kids who love it and ask for it, and if that is the case great, but the kids I know who are in those programs are not there because they want to be there. Nor do they need to be there, their grades are fine.

DS enjoys math and science. He asks to enroll in the after school clubs that involve coding and robotics. He also asks to go to art club, plays baseball/basketball, and enjoys Scouting. This summer he choose two weeks of science camp and a inventors camp. We have not enrolled him in math enrichment programs because he is not interested in those, we have asked because he really likes math.

I don't think the extra work is needed. I think that the schools here do a perfectly good job of prepping kids for STEM programs, as evidence but the number of kids who go to engineering schools and the like, without extra tutoring. I work with rocket scientists and while all of them had an interest in math and science at a young age they all took a more traditional math path. The gaps that parents see are not really gaps. But that is my take on things. [/quote]

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