Last year, I kept thinking I just have not presented our situation well enough. How could a school not understand learning needs? Finally, I realized that our school was just not going to be what was needed. Having the support from our FC and the discussion board really helped me make this decision.THANK YOU!!!!

It has been about 7 weeks at our new school for Gifted Kids. My kids are happy after school. They enjoying learning again and feel challenged. This will do so much for them.

The commute to school went from 10 mins. to 45 mins and yet my life feels easier.

I hope this will encourage someone. Last year, I felt so worried that our situation was hopeless. Things can really change.

The Montessori school that both my kids now attend have been very accomodating with us. Our 6-year is engaged in academics @ a 6th grade level and will soon be ready to move on to 7th.

The school was originally accredited up to 6th grade, but our boy gave them the push to be accredited for up to 12th so he would have some sort of home for a while.

Our youngest just turned 4 and the school allowed him to skip Pre-K and K and is peforming 1st grade academic work and his teacher is trying to figure a program that will engafge him on the same level as our oldest although he is not a "driven" as our oldest is.

I wanted to post here because I feel we are a semidecent success story right now, at least in terms of school. DD, who tested MG but appears more HG, transferred from a small charter with a seemingly high # of bright kids to a gifted magnet school. Though some things could be better, DD is clearly much more stimulated. The school uses a project-based curriculum that really allows kids to go deep into the subjects. There are also a lot of excellent guest speakers and field trips on topics of great interest to the kids. Science is strong, with an on-site lab. She did a compacted math curriculum and is now working through a curriculum for the next grade up. Interestingly, the teacher seems to be doing almost no "reading" instruction other than providing a lot of time for free reading. I was skeptical of this at first, but it no longer bothers me. Her teacher and the librarian seem to be doing a decent job of keeping her in books that are somewhere around right. The downside is that there is too much homework, but when I ask DD how her day was, her answer is always "Great!" This was definitely not the case at her old school. She also appears much more socially connected and happy.

DD9 started partial schooling in January in gr 6 (a month before her 9th birthday). This was after almost a year of advocating for her to get a radical acceleration from entering 4th to entering 6th. After we were refused the acceleration for the fall we started homeschooling her at the 6th grade level and it was clear that this was a good spot to try her at. So, after continued pressure she was admitted and she likes it a lot. Science and art are not at her level, but her language arts class is a gifted class and it is pretty close to her level. Her teachers are very happy with her and she loves being in classes with kids that understand her more than in the past.