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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know. My kid is in third grade and this weeks' spelling list includes the words mischief, insincere and mischievous. He has to write an essay every week about a book he's reading. They have substantial math homework every night, plus cursive 2x each week. Interesting work on the constitution and the bill of rights seems to be happening in social studies. They just did two science experiments on gravity. The coursework seems appropriately challenging.[/quote]

Which school, so that I can move my kids there :-) ?

At the Bethesda ES, in 3rd grade, they are not doing cursive. Their spelling words are past tense verbs like "slept" and instead of learning them quickly off by heart they are expected to sort them in completely silly and complicated ways. They are not doing anything remotely challenging anywhere except for ONE weekly supercomplex math problem that are way over their heads and that the parents are expected to explain - not the teachers. 
The one bright moment of the year so far was a video (a video!) about the Roman Empire. DS was fascinated.
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