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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not Two Rivers or Cap. City M.S? It seems most people are equating "rigor" with just covering more content. What about teaching students conceptual understanding rather than having them go through a series of worksheets in a book? Progressing through a Saxon Math workbook  sounds very little like rigor to me. Students at Two Rivers and Cap. City get a different kind of rigor, they are challenged to think on their own and problem solve- 2 areas of growth that seem much more useful in college and beyond. I certainly didn't have a workbook with lessons at my Ivy. [/quote]

I can ony speak from our experience.  My kid, who was in the first class at Two Rivers, was very happy there until around the middle of third grade.  After that, we only hung on mainly for lack of funds for a private, and not seeing the point of shuffling him off to Watkins.  A school that had embraced experiential learning in a big way shifted gears and focused on DC-CAS prep and remediation for struggling students.  The pace of learning slowed to the point that he became really bored in the absence of an accelerated program.  When only a handful of the middle class kids in 5th grade seemed on track to stay, we saw the writing on the wall.  The MS facilities were poor and we had no reason to believe that he'd be challenged or happy again.  We switched to St. Peter mainly because we couldn't afford other privates, wanted to stay on the Hill and Latin seemed too far.   He was quickly turned onto school again.  I don't know about Cap. City, but the Two Rivers MS really struggles.  The leadership seems a lot more interested in helping mainly low-SES kids keep up than in challenging kids who need challenge.  Not necessarily different from SH or EH.  Two Rivers has a new PTA, so maybe things will look up, but I doubt it.

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