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That sounds like a nightmare, I'm so sorry. I hope you have good luck with 1st grade. Maybe THAT teacher is the best ever? I mean, you can hope...

If it makes you feel any better--but it probably won't--I took DS5 to IQ and achievement testing a couple weeks and it was also an unmitigated disaster. He wasn't having fun, doesn't enjoy being quizzed on what he knows, and didn't see what the point of the activity was, so he totally blew off most of it. He still pulled out achievement scores that show he's basically passed Kindergarten without ever having attended, but that won't be good enough for them. He has to have nearly achieved 1st grade proficiency before they'll let him into 1st grade early. Ugh, the bureaucracy... it burns.