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Wow!!!

Wow - loved that book! Would have loved to read it with my teacher in 2nd grade! Heavenly!

Good for you for all that daring and hard work!
It might, but my hunch is that the subject acceleration in 4th, and the relationship with the 4th grade teacher will be what clinches it.


Both sound like great ideas! Thanks for sharing the good news. We need to hear it!

Smiles,
Grinity

Your story sounds just like ours.
I am this close to giving up......
I feel that all this energy that we spend on advocating, could benefit to my DS in a productive way if we would be homeschooling.
Hang in there, I know it is not easy.

On Tuesday I went to school to read to the kids in the library so I stopped by the office and asked to talk to the principal and was told that she wasn't there. Yesterday I called for her and was told that she wasn't there and I left a message. Today I called and was told that she was out sick and whatever I had to talk to her about I could talk to the teacher about. No offer to take a message. I went early to pick my son up and guess who was in the office just walking around?? The missing principal! My son and I had to get somewhere so there's no way I could have stayed and talked to her but I guess I'll try again tomorrow ;(

That sounds so frustrating. I am so sorry, that the principal is avoiding the conversation. Hope that you can have a good talk tomorrow.

Yesterday, I got my son's whole desk worth of books because he would be out from school 2 days. This scared me about acceleration. I got really intimidated by so much I just don't really know about. How will I figure out what he needs? I thought about giving this up.

Deep Breath, it will be OK they don't expect me to be an expert. I'm a mom not a teacher or Gifted expert. Sometimes little changes can make a big difference and that's all I really want right now.

Another update....I thought DS was having a good two weeks at school. No big behavior problems except talking out of turn. Today he came home with a behavior ticket. I'm not exactly sure what it is but it's something that the teacher and I both sign and that they keep on file. It was for bad naptime behavior. When he started this school I talked to the principal about naps and told her that he has never taken them and she promised me that they'd find something else for him to do.

Not only did he have a write up but he came home with a behavior plan. When I went meet with the teacher a month ago she told me that she didn't think behavior plans worked and that she wouldn't put him on one. Now for every activity they do he gets a happy, medium or sad face and I have to sign it. Looking at it I've noticed that most of his sad faces are during nap, math or reading time. This only leads me to believe even more that his behavior is related to his being bored. We have conferences on Tuesday and I guess I'll find out what it's all about.

If I didn't know better I'd think that the teacher is going to use this behavior plan as yet another reason why they won't accelerate him in anything.