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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the previous GDS poster (and, again, I am not the person whose kid had a bad experience at Nysmith -- that poster never said her kid then went to GDS).

And, yes, your kid can be working 4-5 years above grade level in the GDS L/MS.  Maybe not in math (2-3 is probably more realistic in terms of instruction), but certainly in humanities.  I'm not sure how to gauge science or foreign language because those subjects often aren't taught in ES, but certainly my kid has learned stuff in both during LS/MS years that other kids learn in HS.

Not all PG kids are primarily interested in math.   And some PG kids who are seen as math kids may be categorized that way because math is easier to accelerate so it's both an outlet for someone who wants to learn more faster and a relatively objective indicator of how far ahead that kid could be.  At least that was my own experience.  Math teachers were my best allies when I looked for more challenge.  But once I got it (i.e. admission into college classes), I used it to take humanities classes because, as it turned out, that's what I was more interested in.  Couldn't tell that from ES/MS, though, because humanities weren't taught in a way that showed me their potential.  By contrast, at GDS my DC has seen that from an early age.

Interestingly (well, to me, at least), DC seems to be a science/languages/philosophy oriented-person and that was something that because apparent as early as 1st grade at GDS.  That's another thing I value about the school.  Kids don't get typecast as math/sci vs humanities -- there's space for and an appreciation of a kind of intellectual dual citizenship. [/quote]

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