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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP - Could you share some more about your experiences at Willow Springs? At the presentation, the general themes they kept repeating was for parents to teach multiplication tables over the summer and to help with organizational skills.

My DD is one of those highly intelligent kids, but does not do well with organization or rote memorization tasks.  So I was getting the feeling that WS is more for gifted kids without "issues"   - the kind that can plow through mounds of homework easily.  That is not my daughter. She loves learning, reads all the time, is highly curious, learns very easily -- but she pages of arithmetic, worksheets, etc. frustrate her to no end.

At the presentation, they emphasized how much more work it would be, but didn't give any tangible examples of the quality of the work.

I hate to take a chance on switching to the Center, with all the social changes that entails, unless I have more information to go on.  I talked with the principal about my concerns, but she seemed very superficial in her responses and unwilling to give me anything but a canned response.[/quote]

My Child is at Willow Springs AAP, and I do agree that multiplication tables are VERY important, but only because they cover two years worth of math in 3rd grade, so they are moving quickly, and knowing the tables helps the kids to get things done quicker.  That said, my child is also not great at straight memorizing, and two years later still struggles with memorizing multiplication.  Still, she gets A's in math.

I'll tell you that we expected a ton of work, but it wasn't anymore than I expected a 3rd grader to have.  It took my daughter about an hour a night to finish homework in third grade, and that is only because she is very easily distracted and works slowly to be neat.  I'd imagine a child without her issues would probably manage homework in 30 minutes. :)  The AAP program has kids with all sorts of 'issues,' I can assure you of that.  At least when it comes to my daughter and her friends. :)

Man, Willow Springs needs to work on their sales pitch.  I thought all the same things after our orientation (and saw others who thought the same last year as well) but it really is a great school with fun activities schoolwide, as well as a good AAP Center.[/quote]

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