thank you MIUK! Thanks for the bullet points..really helpful! I haven't thought about OE's being misinterpreted as immaturity. I will do some research on that.

I'm so glad that you were able to manage a grade skip for your DD. Hope that is going well. I think I am going to go ahead and order the scales today.

one thing I was wondering about was a comment made by the new principal. He said that once a child is in a pullout class such as math, then she must test and be reported as that grade level. Is that true? This doesn't make any sense to me at all!