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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the effectiveness of hundreds of dollars worth of tutoring a month. The time for learning and studying is during the day at school. What do kids testing well above the taught level do during the day, and how is it not harmful to them to cruise all day and wait for their private tutor to challenge them after school? Beyond the money that I don't have, I'm concerned about the balance, and the odd experience of school that kids would acquire this way.[/quote]

An OK educational experience is available just around the corner, saving us a 1-1.5 hour school day commute to, say, BASIS, Washington Latin or DCI.

DC really likes attending the neighborhood middle school with pals of many years.  The program offers good facilities. Admins and teachers like to claim kid is pushed, obviously not the case.

We don't simply want grade-level academics stemming from the somewhat blah, American-centric DCPS curriculum.  We want academics at least a year ahead of grade level across the board, a richer and more international curriculum in places, and more personalized attention supporting the kid's individual interests.  Also, we speak a language not taught in DCPS at home, and some of the tutoring pays for literacy work in the language (which we can't teach ourselves).

Speaking this unusual language has made us odd from the get go, so we've given up worrying that we're weird.  For us, the balance is found in the kid's enthusiasm for working with terrific tutors after days spent sitting in classes that are a little too big and a little too easy. Happy to spend the money on an arrangement that's essentially providing us with a GT program we can afford, in a neighborhood that we've loved for two decades, without moving to Fairfax, or breaking the bank going private for middle school.
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I have news for you. Many families in Fairfax with kids in GT program supplement as well because there is always something more to do.  My DS is in the AAP program and we supplement math (through RSM), two languages (because he has to), and enhanced reading lists.  This is apart from all the other extracurriculars.

This is all to say that the need to supplement doesn't go away just because a GT program is available. [/quote]

Why supplement so much if he is in AAP?  Serious question. When do you stop?  [/quote]

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