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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS attended Mosaic and hated it.  He was bored out of his mind. Classes were generally quite large and often crammed into trailers.  The teachers largely focused on the kids who didn't belong in AAP, so math involved constant review and remediation, and language arts meant that his reading group almost never saw the teacher.  They didn't do any of the fun extensions that are normally given at other AAP centers.  The entire month before the SOL was spent on SOL review bootcamp, which is torture for the AAP kids.  They didn't have any of the fun academic extracurriculars that are common at almost every other AAP center.  Most of the teachers weren't very good.  The homework they had was entirely absurd busywork.  Like to prepare for Wordmasters, they had to write out their vocab words like 5-10 times, but in rainbow letters or spooky letters or things like that.  Maybe things have changed, but in math, they made them do way too much Dreambox.

Anyway, STAY AT PRIVATE![/quote]

I'm sorry, but this is just completely 100% inaccurate.  OP is talking about a rising third-grader, and third grade is never in trailers at Mosaic, to start with.  My child is in the 3rd grade AAP program at Mosaic this year and none of this reflects our reality.  RE: Wordmasters, the rainbow/spooky letter thing was something kids all do in 1st and 2nd grade did for vocab, but not now.  My daughter had to learn each word and write contextual sentences for them. SOL review was them asking each child to do a short homework packet each week for 4 weeks, my daughter never said a word about it interfering with the regular classroom experience during that month.  And, FWIW, my child regularly is one of the top scorers on math exams, and she's never complained about it being "boring" or how a teacher is "focused on the kids who didn't belong in AAP."

They DID do a "math field day" the week before SOLs, where they did traditional "field day" exercises outside, but with math incorporated, which sounded pretty darn fun. Her teacher is fantastic.  The other AAP teacher seems fantastic, too.  She actually doesn't normally HAVE homework, which I would say is in keeping with the most recent academic research on the (non)benefits of homework at this age -- so it's definitely not "absurd busywork" coming home.   And she has done ZERO dreambox this year.   I very much question if the PP here even had a kid in Mosaic's AAP program. [/quote]

Or maybe they want the parent to stay private so their kid could get pupil placed.

Either way- stay at private.

Not because you will be happier there. But because you’re not wanted at Mosaic. [/quote]

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