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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All helpful, thank you for sharing. I am not familiar with GCP, but our family is focused on making sure the kids understand we live in a bubble and not everyone has the material advantages they have, so those aspects are good. I can't really tell about the academics at the school, though. We have friends at Ashlawn who have complained that their kid knew more when they graduated pre-k and that the entire K year was sort of a waste with the desks pushed together into pods, not learning to read, etc. On the one hand I get that it's K and it shouldn't be a pressure cooker. OTH, if my kid were doing well in pre-k and then they seemed to learn nothing in K, I would be wondering whether I should take them elsewhere. We have been having lots of questions about APS and Ahshlawn's ability to actually teach to solid foundations of math and reading. Can anyone comment on that? Some neighbors do reading tutors, kumon etc to 'supplement'. Is that because the school is not teaching enough?[/quote]

Our 2 kids went to Ashlawn and in no way did we have to supplement any kind of tutor for reading or math. In fact, my student halfway through the year in 1st grade was testing below grade level for reading. They had our child meet with one of the reading specialist and they were ABOVE grade level within 6 weeks! They have some really excellent special teachers available. Both of my students went to middle school with no issue and are very successful there (tracking ahead in both math and reading and taking intensified in MS/HS next year).

I have heard parents complain about kindergarten and truth be told my second child was already reading by the time they went to kindergarten and was a little bored academically. However, Kindergarten is about social norms, learning how to be a student, a good citizen, following  rules,  independence, etc. it is absolutely developmentally appropriate for five and six years olds to still be playing in kindergarten. I think Ashlawn does a great job and grooving students by their academic abilities or deficiencies. I’m not sure how much they do it now with the new curriculum but the small group pull outs worked really well for my children. [/quote]

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