Originally Posted by hip
Our only recourse in the end was to move him to a private school that specializes in gifted ed. I hope you have better luck than we did!

I hope so too. I also wish there were a local school specializing in gifted ed. frown

Originally Posted by hip
But I do have something to suggest about spelling: when dd started getting several years ahead of her classmates, her L.A. teacher suggested that rather than continuing to even higher levels of it, she should study vocabulary via the 'Wordly Wise' workbook series. Dd was happy because it made her feel like a big kid, and I felt it was more interesting and useful than just memorizing how to spell words.

This is wonderful, thank you! I'll suggest this as an example of a good substitution, offer to pay for it if necessary, and see if they go for it.

Striving to increase my rate of flow, and fight forum gloopiness. sick