Originally Posted by mom2twoboys
They realize that the sporadic shifting of classrooms during the week isn't working and they want his whole reading group together in the same classroom. This particular K teacher was the school's gifted and talented coordinator for several years before moving back to teaching this year.

It sounds like they may be trying cluster grouping. I would talk to the former gifted teacher about it. If you have any testing data I'd bring it to the meeting to discuss how he'd fit with the class.