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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone: please write back when your kids are about 9 or so.  I mean it. If your kids' school day still includes a nap or mandatory rest period, lovely.   I mean it, you're probably a lovely person.  I have no doubt your school does a solid job with center time and the plastic groceries.

But you're not equipped to talk about how well charter X or dcps school Y does with, say, national math benchmarks.  Or prep for a middle school STEM program.   [/quote]

We'll see how I feel when my kid is nine.  But right now I can tell you that my late birthday three year old who could barely hold a crayon in August when he started school can now WRITE.  He is on the cusp of READING (and can read and spell out simple words).  He can add and subtract.  He could do none of those things before he started school.  He amazes me every day telling me what he has learned at school in four short months.

He's not four until next September and his teachers have taught him to read and write, already.  I am stunned.  It's not all "center time and plastic groceries".  With education like this we'll definitely be staying in DC.[/quote]

NP here.  My child is 9 and has attended DCPS at the same neighborhood school since 3.  He hit all those benchmarks and is doing increadibly well at math.  He loves school and never misses a day-- somehow manages to only get sick on weekends! But his sense of imagination is not that high.  He doesn't have a strong sense of curiosity.  Maybe he would have been like this regardless.  Maybe it is something that will just come to him later.  But it is something I am worried about.   I wonder if there is a test for curiousity?  MAybe my expectations are too high. [/quote]

there was an article in the wash post mag about something similar to this about a year ago. A very bright child from DC charter schools who went to Georgetown completely unprepared. He said no one had ever taught him to think.[/quote]

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