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[quote=Anonymous]My DD (generally pretty smart kid, now in our district's advanced/gifted program) found second grade to be just brutal.
My sense is that 2nd is really just a holding patter.  There's the whole mantra of "learning to read thought 2nd, and the reading to learn in 3rd" so they basically just hold the curriculum in second to make sure that everyone can read, add, and subtract reasonably well.
In our experience K and 1st was generally more flexible and offered more differentiation, but 2nd was just repeating 1st grade work, and not letting kids move on to 3rd grade work (ie, reading real novels and multiplication/division, etc.)

So just get through the year, OP.  Don't make any drastic decisions or conclusions based on this year.  Hopefully your kid gets into AAP, and if he doesn't on the first shot, definitely appeal.  If he's still really struggling once he gets well into a good 3rd grade program, then you might have to worry about behavior and stuff, but for now... just survive the year.[/quote]

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