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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Homework and testing is how parents know if their kids are learning appropriate grade level material.  Both are sorely lacking in the lower school.  Couple that with inflated feel good progress reports that say DC is doing great and it is easy to see how parents miss the signs that DC is below grade level at any other fricking school.  [/quote]

This is the answer to why parents may not know as well as they should.  We always knew what DC was studying and what activities were going on.  But a child that knows s/he will never be tested on content does not pay the same attention to details as one who knows it could show up on a quiz or test.  And reading materials sent home to be read are also read with a different level of attention.  And if a child is fooling around with another kid during group discussion or is just plain daydreaming, they miss a LOT.  In our case, we did not have another school to compare progress against ... only distant memories of our own school days.  We absolutely did raise concerns with the teachers and they always told us everything was great.  The narrative report cards said the same thing.  But going into 5th grade, our kid did not know who Christopher Columbus was, that the three primary types of rocks were igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary, that Jamestown was one of the first settlements in Virginia, anything to do with American history even on the most basic level, and on and on.

We are not huge fans of constant testing and content cramming ... it is the reason we chose the school in the first place.  But I suppose we decided that there has to be a more middle ground so we left.  We now see what our child is capable of and we are sorry we didn't do it sooner.  But kindergarten and first grade at Burgundy are truly delightful.[/quote]

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