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Yes! Thank you Melissa for putting up with the hassle of dealing with 60 of us to get this program going! EPGY has allowed DS to find his pace, and we wouldn't have been able to do it without your co-op.

I wish I had known about this group's EPGY group before signing on through our school district! I think it would have been more beneficial to DS5. We love EPGY as it's allowed him to set the pace and learn so many new things - while his class is working on the numbers 1-10. He loves to learn and hopefully this keeps him interested!

We are now passing 90 students and growing! It's great to see so many families being able to benefit from the program.

Wow! Are you planning on capping it as some point and are you going to do this again when it is time to re-enroll in June?

I notice that they've changed the requirements to be a group -- down to 8 and it says something about the group members living w/in reasonable geographical distance of one another. Does the geographical distance requirement negatively impact us at all?

I will cap the group when it becomes a burden on my time and responsibilities to my family. I have another parent willing to help when EPGY deems the group large enought to add an SSA. The yahoo group is run by another volunteer parent. With five children, my youngest turning two next month, I plan to be doing this for a while.

I don't know of any reason the geographical distance would negatively impact anyone in the group. It began that you could only join if you were part of a group formed by your school district and has expanded from there. I imagine it would benefit you if there was a group in your area that was active outside of EPGY. There is one really big homeschool group in the Open Enrollment that is very active within their community and has hundreds of students. You could certainly say there is more benefit to be part of a group like that if it is available to you.

I think the not to many repetions and advancing at one's level would be great for my son. Is there more depth in this math to be geared to gifted? Does this generate reports that show progress and Mastery. Is there enrichment activities to slow the advancement to the next grade, yet provide more depth?

If there is no teacher, then does it become very time consuming for the parent? Or the supervising teacher at school.

Is it correct that we could join this and do what ever grade of Math we want? Is this just Math?

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I haven't had any negative impact at all . I was more concerned that they might not allow us to do this again next year given our geographical dispersion. Their webpage now says that students in one group must all live w/in a reasonable geographical distance from one another although they didn't define what they were considering reasonable.

The policy for groups hasn't really changed. It used to be written - within a school district. The question and response from EPGY regarding our demographics is here http://giftedissues.davidsongifted.org/BB/ubbthreads.php/topics/50559/1.html just page down a few responses.

Just click on the links mentioned in this thread. There are literally pages of information on the group available. Otherwise click on my name and search my posts for EPGY.