Originally Posted by Nautigal
If he isn't happy, it isn't because he thinks it's just more of the same -- it's because it IS just more of the same. They do so much review at the start of the year, it's long enough to make kids like your DS give up and assume nothing new is going to happen this year, either.

That's the advantage of home/virtual school. You can rapidly skim through the revision (just quickly take the tests to verify competence in the earlier material) and move on to the new stuff.