This is excellent news, Dubsyd! This sounds a lot like my experience of moving my kiddo after skipping 1st to an accelerated program for 2nd-5th. It was a great relief to find people who got GT kids. Re: handwriting - does the school teach cursive by chance? They started cursive in 3rd at DS's school, and his cursive was sooooooo much better than his printing. Maybe something about not lifting his hand off the paper so much. But as it turns out, now that DS is in 6th, his handwriting is still pretty crummy, but legible enough.
It really is a relief to find a place where you don't have to spend so much time on advocacy. I hope things continue going well!
