Ethan attended YUS Montessori for preschool and really enjoyed that experience. He currently attends Gilmore Community School (public). While it is a good school and he is enjoying it, the school is not able to cater to individual student's learning styles and speed. When his teacher visited our home prior to the beginning of the school year, we told her that Ethan is reading simple books and can perform single digit addition/subtraction. She told us that this is highly unlikely, and if it were true, may be masking behavioural and social issues. We did not agree with this assessment.

We applied to WMA last year but did not get in. Living in North Burnaby, there are limited private school options for us that do not require a long drive. As a result, we put Ethan in public school and he is currently learning the ABC's and 123's again, following the provincial curriculum. 