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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would keep her in a good Montessori if you could. We moved DD from Montessori to FCPS in first grade. She did great in school, but would come home distraught that she was not learning anything. To show her teacher that she could do more than add two and two and come up with four, she would show that she could do 2 x 2 and get four, or 8/2 to get 4 or 16 different ways to do it, but her teacher did not acknowledge what she was trying to do (not that I blame the teacher; there were kids in class that did not recognize numbers or letters or knew the names of shapes or colors).

She successfully lobbied to go back to Montessori ("My brain is rusting when I am in school. Why am I going there?") half way through the school year, and she stayed there until she got into AAP in 3rd grade. Her first assignment when she got back to Montessori was to write a research paper on a dinosaur, to go with a diorama.[/quote] that’s very impressive! I thought FCPS had AAP to offer more challenges in-class for those who qualify from k-2. [/quote]

DP. Not really. Both my kids qualified for AAP work in K-2 but only one teacher actually challenged my kids. The other teachers didn’t provide any challenging work. I assume they didn’t have time to differentiate for the higher level learners.[/quote] oh my. I was under the impression that schools utilized a resource teacher (acronym ART I think?) to administer more advanced work in a part time setting to students. [/quote]

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