Thanks,
I suspect the school psychologist is blowing smoke about what the IAS requires.
I found this last night:
http://www.assess.nelson.com/pdf/asb-11.pdf which means that for spelling first grade instruction would be "Appropriate". Everything else will be Easy to Very Easy. Given the IQ and the fact that 7 months previous he had signigifcantly lower scores in writing (87 before kindergarten on the KTEA-II because DS is old for grade), I'm not worried about his abilities to perform in first grade.
I'm not concerned about the second graders in this group. The school has two instructional systems into which parents select their kids in kindergarten. One of the system has all the kids in the 1/2 mixed classes.
