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[quote=Anonymous]Our experience in a well-off pyramid that does NOT send many kids to TJ (Lake Braddock/Robinson).

It's advanced math. A bit more depth in language arts (I wish Caesar's English was required across the county, I think my other kid in an immersion program would have enjoyed it).

From my perspective, it seems to draw very, very good and very, very terrible teachers, but I haven't seen just average teachers in my child's program. The excellent teachers are drawn to the opportunity to expand and teach extensions and teach curious kids (even kids with weird gaps in skills but are nonetheless in level IV). The terrible teachers hide out in AAP because the kids inevitably will do well on testing and admin at the school seems content with the status quo. These teachers do a lot of drill and kill worksheets (the endless coloring self-grading math sheets were particularly annoying because how much time is spent "coloring" when the kids should be learning or reflecting on what they don't know).

You will see A LOT of families focus on teaching their kids at home. Math for example is something many of the families just take on and teach on their own, either by tutoring or using a service like Kumon/Russian Math, or just teaching themselves. Parents in our center were really nice and open about all of this, which I thought was very, very cool considering how much people like to keep this sort of stuff on the down low around here.

I was a teacher in high school for years (I work in industry now), but it's a good program for some kids. I WOULD NOT recommend our school/center for a kid with learning issues, even ADHD because they just don't care and don't do a good job of scaffolding or differentiating instruction for these types of learners (talking to parents of kids who have these issues they all seem incredibly frustrated). Oddly, I found the immersion program to be excellent at SPED.

Again, this is just one person's opinion and YMMV of course. But for the sake of sharing and transparency, I thought I'd offer this insight.[/quote]

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