For most school districts who cannot group the GT kids in one class together with a motivated teacher and proper curriculum, acceleration is going to be the best compromise.
There are really two groups to work with here - your child AND the school, both of which may be averse at first.
Not much in life is cut and dried and with a bureaucracy and people averse to change and risk, the best approach is to rock soup your way into the final configuration. Use this as a principle to get there.
Ask for pull outs to 2+ grades for reading or math or science then keep adding pullouts until your child is there and there are no issues means one day after Christmas break, they just go to grade 2+.
Everything in life is negotiable. Everything. Unless someone is mentally unstable, you should be able to rationally discuss things with them by agreeing on general principles then working within that framework.
Last edited by Austin; 01/23/09 01:29 PM.
