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[quote=Anonymous]"My DC attends Burgundy and I have posted comments regarding the school's academics on other DCUM threads ... I will try not to be too redundant here.  [b]My personal feeling is that a child who may require some remedial help or needs rigid structure to learn best is not a good fit for Burgundy.  Nor is a child who is exceptionally bright and needs real challenge and acceleration.  Most kids (again, definitely my opinion not gospel) fall well in the middle and thus would be fine at Burgundy[/b].   There is plenty of intellectual, academic activity every day at school and by the end of eighth grade, the kids leave with a good portfolio of knowlege, skills, confidence, and interest in continued learning.

Most of the parents I know at Burgundy understand that their kids could probably have more facts memorized and sharper writing skills if they attended different schools ... but to what end?  Especially during the elementary years, children need to learn but they also need to have fun and experience joy every day.  They will never be young children again.  So while learning and fun need to be balanced and need not be mutually exclusive, Burgundy tends to err on the side of taking advantage of a glorious sunny day to have a few extra minutes of recess.  Those are minutes that could have been used to learn multiplication facts ... but at the end of their time at Burgundy, they'll know those facts and a lot else too."

I am not OP, but I am curious about your comment on kids at the end of spectrum.  We're laid back family, so we haven't wanted to ask too much about differentiation/acceleration and would prefer not to be flagged as pushy or delusional.  Plus, I don't really believe achievement matters until kids are older.  But, does BFCS make every child do the same thing for math and reading all the time?  So, for example, if a kid in K adds, subtracts, skip counts, reads, etc., would the child just sit there fidgeting in the group during those subjects?  When do teachers break kids into small groups for core subjects, if ever?[/quote]

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