We have an excellent school that bends over backward to do everything they can for our DS7. It's just a small public school in a town of less than 1000 (students come from as far as 40 miles away), but they are really on the ball here. DS7 was officially identified as 2E this year (Asperger's and gifted) and as such is in the GT program and Special Ed too. They have placed him in math class with the 5th graders and reading with the 3rd graders, and they give him two periods a day of a computer learning program called Success Maker. Next year they are looking at getting ALEKS for him because they don't want to send him to the middle school for math. They also have a team that works with him daily on social skills, a traveling Asperger's counselor that comes in monthly or so to work with him, and they sent their counselors to a seminar on 2E issues. He is the only 2E student in the district, and the principal has told us that if they went by strict interpretations instead of the looser guidelines that state funding works with, there would be only 3 gifted students in the district and he would be one of them. So all in all, for a tiny minority of one, they are absolutely outstanding. We would really prefer to move to the larger town down the road, but I will not take him from this district (to put him in the district where I went to school)!
