Dd is currently in 3rd grade and I'm just really unhappy with her GT program (self-contained highly gifted class). The class has been working on measurement, area and perimeter since the beginning of the school year using a program called Project M3. I just received notice that they will now have 20 min of homework on a program called iready and the goals for the 3rd graders are to know their division/multiplication facts fluently up to 100. Dd is already well beyond this. They also rely on rubrics for grading and dd is not challenging herself or invested. She has no motivation to do above and beyond in the classroom. I feel like she really isn't learning anything.
However, the program she is in really does a good job of addressing the emotional and social aspects of being gifted. They have a social worker that comes in 2 times a week to discuss things with them. Dd also struggles socially so this is a huge benefit for her.
So I'm torn between keeping her in her current program where I feel she isn't learning but benefiting socially and emotionally, or putting her in a charter school where it would be more rigid and she could possibly be more challenged and receive an actual education. The charter school uses MAPS testing and places them according to that, and will even move them up grades when necessary for instruction. FWIW math is really dd's strength and I would consider her writing and reading to be within the normal development range for 3rd grade.
