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Bianca, what a nice post. And now I know why you're up so early in the morning!

Also, I never thought HS was an option for us until I came to this board. Now, I realize that our local private schools will not work for DS, and our choice as to whether to continue in public school (which means extra work after school) or to HS depends upon how he is doing. For now, we're in a holding pattern. The toughest thing for us is the 2E - the local private schools don't want the 2nd E (whatever anyone's 2nd E is, why admit a child who requires more work), and the public school can't address the other E. All of a sudden though, he seems happy with the other kids in school, so we'll see how it goes. Of course, this is a week of half days for conferences with vacation starting Friday, so it's really a week of fun and games. So for us, at the moment, the answer is we won't switch a happy child. If he becomes unhappy again, however, we know just what to do. It's so nice to know there are options.