So far, I am cautiously optimistic that the move out of the gifted program and into a project-based learning school was a good one. DD11's teachers seem to "get" her and be differentiating appropriately for her. I think she was surprised and dismayed by the difficulty of making a whole new set of friends, but now she is making friends and settling into the program. DS7 is doing well in 2nd grade, and finally has the veteran teacher we were expecting for this year (she's been out for over a year of cancer treatment, but is back to teaching now after a long-term sub who was on her first teaching assignment). She's only been back for a couple of weeks, so we don't know yet how the rest of the year will go (and I have never met her and wouldn't recognize her on the street).
