I've found that for my DD10, it's just as much the classroom management philosophy as it is the rigor. She responds very well to positive reinforcement and very poorly to negative. She had terrible experiences with the stoplight method and the erasing the letters of the name method. Public shaming seems to be the norm in elementary education, and it's HORRID for her.

Stacey. Former high school teacher, back in the corporate world, mom to 2 bright girls: DD12 & DD7.