Mama22Gs - thank you for your post! What she said!
Floridamama - I've only seen the youtube clips of the documentary. My friend has ordered all 4 DVDS so I'll be viewing them in a week or two. The first 2Million minutes aired a year or two ago and followed 2 high school students each from the US, China and India. The next two DVDs each focus on education in India and China, the last and fourth documentary purports to give the solution to our *crisis.* I'm quite interested in what they perceive the solution to be.
And when I spoke w/ my DS's K teacher, she emphatically said they couldn't teach 1st grade work in K. Yet, he was writing and discussing books on a 1st grade level (he had to write the main character, plot, resolution, and setting), he brought home worksheets on fractions etc. I think she was doing it "under the table." She had him and 2 other boys in a reading group w/in 4 weeks of school. The rest of the class started in February.
And if you read SwitchedonMom's blog, the Principle had to go against ALL the higher ups in order to admit a previously homeschooled girl at her real academic level rather than put her w/ her age mates. those are the people we need to be applauding and supporting!
