Originally Posted by JJsMom
Jamie B, we tried before K, but hit too many roadblocks and couldn't afford the private testing. We were just extremely lucky to get an awesome K teacher who saw DS5.5's strengths. She is the one that suggested whole grade acceleration, which apparently cannot happen prior to the start of K in our district (unless we go through the process JBDad did).

I actually took DS to a psychologist last week and got some private testing done but don't have the results yet. I'm not sure how he did because he gets silly sometimes. I also took him to his pediatrician who said that he thinks that his behavior problems are the result of him being so bored. I am thinking that maybe I can bring the test results and a letter from his pediatrician to his school and see if they'll work with me.

He's in the gifted program but he only gets 90 minutes once a week. He loves that time and does extremely well but it's way less than he needs.

I'm afraid that because he seems to have already lost interest in Kindergarten and doesn't participate they can't see how really advanced he is.