Alexsmom, does the boring man saying blablabla mean that they have verbal instructions in EPGY?
Yes. We did Open Enrollment (which doesn't require anything beyond ability to pay), and started DD at 2nd grade. She was doing EPGY as a way of preparing for her skip to third.
The boring man gives you a little lecture when a new topic is introduced. DD is not a hugely mathy kid, but the material she was covering was generally not new to her (hence the skip!), and she disenjoyed having to sit through the explanation. Plus, it was obvious she wasn't paying attention to the explanation, because often she'd have no clue how they wanted her to show her work on the following problems.
