But stop to consider-- really consider-- your child's tolerance for another however-many-years of far-below level work and then ask yourself if your child is still going to be knocking out stratospheric standardized test scores if they've spent the previous decade dumbing down, blending in, and tuning out.
Some kids, maybe so.
Others, not-so-much.
Our DD8 made it quickly apparent that the answer to that question was an emphatic "NO!" when, three weeks into K, she decided that she didn't remember how to write an "M" anymore. She'd already been writing on every loose scrap of paper for the previous two years.
DD has skipped into 4th grade this year, and I'm quite delighted that she's not bringing home aces on every paper, because it shows that she's being challenged. I do expect her to rise to the challenge as the year goes on.
Last night she brought home a pile of papers, and one was a writing assignment with a well-deserved F.
