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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since you’re looking at early childhood development and academics, try to come away knowing exactly their approach to teaching math, reading, spelling, science and work habits.

We’ve been on a tour where all they talked about what mission and nothing else. Other schools covered their values plus their curricula and approach.  When we looped back to the mission school to ask basic academic questions, it was clear it was not a focus. You assumed it would be but it wasn’t. [/quote]

I just want to echo this. Many of the DC progressive schools use methods to teach reading that are severely lacking. There is a thread on Lower School Reading that discusses this in depth. It is possible to have progressive and good academics but not everywhere.

We asked about phonics in the curriculum and were assured that it was a phonics based reading program. Turns out they used Units of Study and basically did not teach phonics or teach kids to read. After mega dollars in tutoring snd a change in schools we are on track.  [/quote]

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