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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS will be starting K in one of the TTs  in the fall. The school has a reputation of being “rigorous”.

We know some of the families who have kids in the mid-upper elementary grade in the school. They all say the same thing - the school does not push the kids who are able to get ahead. According to them, the school seems more concerned with providing support to those who may fall behind as opposed to pushing the kids to get ahead. The common complaint seems to be that kids are bored at school as they claim to know the material already.

It was surprising to hear this complaint from more than one family from school that has a reputation being rigorous. Maybe rigor doesn’t come until high school?

When we looked into K for DS, we also looked into other TT, 2T, 3T schools. They all seem to have great curriculum for K-2.

Is the curriculum for all the private schools similar more or less in elementary school  in terms of rigor?

Also, why wouldn’t a school want to teach kids to get ahead - for example, if there are group of 2nd graders who can do 4th grade math, why not teach that group 4th grade math? Why not accelerate kids who can handle a grade or two above ?[/quote]

Is this why so many private elementary school kids have tutors?  Frustrating to drop 70k a year on private school tuition and still supplementing with tutors or Russian School of Math to get ahead.  70k for elementary school is pretty obscene if the majority of the time spent is on social emotional learning....[/quote]

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