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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was reading another post in the Gen. Education Forum about how elementary school (especially the lower grades) is not especially well-suited to the way boys learn or the ways boys are developing.  We have been thinking we wouldn't send our son to AAP if he got in (he did) in large part b/c he isn't a typical "good student" in his current 2nd grade class (same with 1st grade).  He doesn't like doing the fine-motor skills tasks like creative writing, he's easily distracted by other kids, and he's always been a wiggly-jiggly person so he has trouble sittng still.  On the flip side, he is pretty quick with logic and reasoning through arguments and loves math (for MLK day they had to write what their "dream" was and he said his dream was to learn multiplication!  He is working on that by choice now.)

Anyway -- after reading some of the other discussion, it made me wonder if maybe the things we've been seeing as his deficiencies at school are common for a lot of boys.

How does the AAP curriculum work for boys?  Does it exacerbate the challenges boys have with the "sit still and write reports" type of learning?[/quote]

Sounds like my boy. We're sending him. [/quote]

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