The acceleration would be into a grade level group that is moving more quickly through the material.
The motivation comes entirely from the kid. He is so bored in math and he enjoys the discussions that he has with the accelerated group (which he worked with last year at the end of the year).
The school values just achievement and results. He choked on the test due to anxiety and/or he doesn’t have the executive function to take the tests. He is in a school that doesn’t take tests. It was complicated in that he had to organize and label scratch paper that showed his work and just put numbers down a column. It is very clear that he knows the material and grasps it very quickly when you interact with him one on one and provide a safe environment.
I am at a loss. In addition to experiencing recurrent failures, he is so down in the dumps about the thought of being in grade level math. Slow paced repetive math raises his anxiety and causes tears and break downs.
