Should We Take Basic or Advanced Obedience?

[Camilla and Darwin]

Darwin graduated from puppy kindergarten at the beginning of October. The training club doesn't hold classes during the winter so we are resuming in January. During the class he did very well, and had no problems learning any of the commands we have taught him. In the past couple of months we have taught him to stay, sit, down, come and leave it pretty reliably. He heels very well at our apartment complex, but anywhere new and it's less than stellar. Our puppy kindergarten teacher advised us to skip basic obedience and take advanced, to avoid redundancy, but I am worried we may miss out on something, or that he may not be ready for advanced obedience. What types of things do they teach in basic, would he benefit more from advanced?

By the way, I post way too many questions, I know. I just have so many, and it's great to have a bunch of experts to help me out... :-)

[Dan, Judi, & Timbow]

I would take basic! It will be good to really master what he already knows and they will add longer commands with distractions. :-)

[Karen & Lucy]

I am not "expert", but in my opinion I would just go on to the basic and follow through. You may want to just sit in on an advanced class just to get an idea of what is being taught to them.