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It sounds like a very good meeting. I am glad that they are willing to work with you. The combination of pretesting and challenging problems sounds great. It's a good thing that there are some things he hasn't mastered yet since he will actually learn something in school

Good luck

Well, I'm glad you're feeling good about it. And buying time is a good thing at this point. Any improvement is an improvement! We'll take 'em where we can get 'em, right?!

I'm disappointed about the GT portion of the meeting. It sounds like they--like so many people in the schools--don't have a clue about 2E, really.

Since the GT portion of your DS's education was one of the big things you wanted to address, how do you feel about that? Did you pretty much get what you wanted and they just don't know it, or is that part still a problem for you?

I think we're htting what we want and need without calling it GT. I found out from DS that the principal was in their class this morning. In a school of 1200, they are concerned about DS. That's nice. But the GT won't be addressed per se. I spoke to our testing psychologist and she advised we give it a few weeks and are if DS is happy. Otherwise, she points out that there are about 200 HS families in this area, and check it out beforehand and make sure there are other GT HS 7 years old around.

I definitely feel better and I think DS feels better that they are trying.

Good. That all makes good sense.