Mastery based system

K12 uses a mastery based system of progress.... what does this mean? It means that as soon as the child masters the material you can move on. So .... spelling ... I give each of my boys a spelling test on Monday ... they review the missed words every day until they can spell them correctly ... in my rising 4th grader this may take several weeks but for my rising 2nd grader we rarely have any words to go over on Tuesday so he gets to take a day off of spelling or move on to the next set of words ... Math ... we watch the video presentation of the material ... if my son appears to have a firm grasp from the sample questions online I will let him take the assessment ... if he passes it he moves on ... if he doesn't have a firm grasp of the sample questions online we review w/the worksheets before taking the assessment We are still reading ahead so that literature time during the school day is just going over the discussion questions. ELA has gotten much harder for the boys and I find the composition part taking much longer than the allotted time but that's ok. We just work at it each day and get it done. I hope this will help some new parents in understanding that they don't have to do every little worksheet or problem if the child understands the material. Why give them busy work? The object is to master the material not to make them do busy work and become bored w/the material.