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Unfortunately, Common Core is going to be the future until the next decade when a different administration tries something else.

The ACT/SAT is switching to the Common Core model, and that will force the private schools to implement a lot of it, just so their students can do well on the college admission tests.

You can take my advice or leave it, but if your child is at the top of his/her class, then supplement his/her learning with enrichment activities. Many colleges have summer camps for advanced kids. Our daughter would spend two weeks at Vanderbilt every summer before coming back to her public school. Duke also has a great program, but I don't think they take elementary age kids like Vandy does.

Don't buy into the soccer mom "bored at school" mantra either. Its horse shite. So is "My kid doesn't take standardized tests well," for that matter.