[quote=Mahagogo5]
Here's a story for you: DD11 was unhappy and stressed out by first grade. So we advocated. But when we couldn't change the system, we left it.
This.We did this. We advocated to the hilt, even hired an advocate, and tried our best. But our public school just is not set up to accommodate kids who are " ahead" of the others in early elementary, even though they try to differentiate. Not that they don't try - they just can't do it.
Now they are in a private school which they LOVE. I have great hopes that it will work out. ( It sounds like it should, anyway.) Right now I'm happy because my twins are happy about going to school, which is a big improvement from this point in first grade.
Edited to add - In preschool they were happy. And they loved the "specials" in their old school, and recess. They had friends, and were not "maladjusted" socially. It was purely academics that caused problems for us.
edited again because there was too much detail!
