We choose my son's school based on the curriculum. They use Saxon maths, Spalding Reading (which includes phonograms), traditional teaching methods and the chil

We choose my son's school based on the curriculum. They use Saxon maths, Spalding Reading (which includes phonograms), traditional teaching methods and the children wear uniforms. Its a Charter school and we love it. My son (kindergarten) is loving math and has 2 or 3 worksheets of math a night as homework. A lot of it is just repetition from previous days concepts, but he feels really good showing us how well he knows "1st grade math." Its not really 1st grade math, but its more advanced than the public school kids that live in our neighborhood... AND way less frustrating it seems. I have yet to hear anything good about Common Core from my friends who deal with it on a regular basis. Basis is a school here in Tucson that is one of the top 5 in the country. They use Saxon math as well: http://educationnext.org/high-scores-at-basis-charter-schools/ http://educationnext.org/high-scores-at-basis-charter-school... If my son wants to go to Basis after grade school he will be prepared. If not... he will be so far ahead of the CC kids, we will probably just sign up for classes at the community college. We go here: http://www.legacytraditional.org/district-home/northwest-tucson/ http://www.legacytraditional.org/district-home/northwest-tuc...