DD9 is having a great start to school - a combo of 7th grade in school and 8th grade via virtual school. She is flying through virtual school classes, and she loves that she can do that instead of having to wait for everyone else in class. She just started playing the clarinet and was put in the intermediate band, so that is her challenge right now - learning to play in a band with kids who learned how to follow and keep up last year.
DD4 started pre-k this year and loves it. We told her teachers that she is beyond what they will be teaching in class, and were told that they are stuck to teaching state standards, so they can't make an entire curriculum for 1 child. (Sounds bad, but...)In the next breath, this same teacher told us that when she asked DD what she wanted to learn this year her response was "monkeys", so the teacher asked her to be more specific - what about monkeys did she want to learn. DD's response: "I want to learn how monkeys hang from their tails."
So, while it seems like she is opposed to doing different stuff for DD, she is actually trying to do more, so we'll see.
