[quote=sdduuuude]I think the key thing I gleaned from this thread is – each school is different. There are probably several that do it right, several that do it badly and several that do it in a way that makes it no different from regular school.[/quote]
That’s a big problem for me. I’ll be sending my kids to a private school for Preschool – 1st Grade. I was thinking of taking them out of private school and try and get them into the Seminar program. My initial impression was, all Seminar classes perform at a very high academic level that would push the kids to the maximum potential. But if not all Seminar class are the same and not all are different than regular classes, then I won’t even take the risk and just keep them in the same private school through 5th Grade.
[quote=sdduuuude]My boy/girl twins both tested GATE and we got the whole pitch on what it means – but I can’t say the quality of the GATE program will steer us away from the middle school we expect to attend, unless there are real problems with both the standard and GATE classes.
I was in higher-level classes as a high-schooler and was isolated from the rest of the class for freshman and sohpomore years. I must say, I hated that.[/quote]
My impression is, public school is more than sufficient for Jr. High and HS. There’s no single curriculum for all the kids, so, your kid can do as well as they want to.
