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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again.

Kid is in 7th at a K-12, we were planning to stay through 12th but kid is unhappy because they are bored. They did a great STEM camp over the summer and seemed happy again, now we’re into the school year and they complain that school is mostly memorizing with no deep engagement.

I don’t know what I’d push the school to do. Last year they at least let them finish math work in advance (they’d do 2 weeks of work in 1 day) and then do challenge problems, but Dc says it was boring and I think it was lonely.

I almost want to hear that DC is exceptional and might not be deeply engaged at most schools (depending on class and teacher of course), not because I need or want an exceptional kid but because I don’t want to change schools. But it seems silly to keep them at a place where they are bored. Everyone talks about Sidwell or STA being so rigorous, and I wish I knew what that meant. I don’t necessarily want the extra workload or pressure for my DC, but they obviously aren’t happy with the current situation.

Ugh.[/quote]

Consider another school for high school, one with more rigor. Next year you can go on tours, have him prepare for and take the ISEE, and apply to more academically rigorous schools. You can't "push" his current school to provide him the experience of attending a highly rigorous school, and a rigorous course of study is by definition going to come with a high workload and some pressure.[/quote]

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