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[quote=Anonymous]We currently have a kid in 5th and wondering about how long we’ll stay. I’m hearing from more and more parents that the school is not great if your child is especially bright, but it’s an awkward topic to discuss in person for obvious reasons.

Can someone who has observed this expand on it?

What I know so far is this:

Math - not even an option to do geometry in 8th grade. Honors math in 7th and 8th follows the same curriculum as non-honors, and 50% of kids take honors (which seems to me to be too high a number to mean much). Also I hear you just have to ask to have your child placed in honors, it’s not based on grades or scores.

English - there seems to be LESS writing at the middle school than in 4th or 5th grade? No essays? Little creative writing? Tests are often fill in the blank? Topic sentences are provided and required to be used (I understand offering them as kids learn to write but why not give the more advanced students more freedom)?

Science - I hear good things about HS science teachers but that MS science is entirely teacher dependent. Lots of memorizing and flash cards.

History or Social Studies - 6th grade seems to have some cool curriculum based on the silk roads. Then some 7th grade teachers are teaching things that are totally wrong (only on person in the executive branch, only the president can be impeached). I don’t know if this was one teacher or all the history teachers.

Can someone expand on this? If your kid tests 95th+ percentile, how do they find the rigor of the MS or HS? We liked that SSSAS isn’t a pressure cooker but are they meeting kids where they are?[/quote]

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