We have been repeatedly stunned at how well advocacy has gone in our DS's school. He nearly 7 and was accelerated from 1st to 2nd grade in January. After two disastrous years in private "gifted" school, we moved him to a public charter school figuring that we should not continue to pay for garbage when we could get garbage for free.
Shockingly, the public charter has been willing to do what the private school wouldn't even discuss. They quickly and easily placed him in a 4th grade level reading group in 1st grade. When he blew through that work, his teacher asked about a skip to 2nd and the principal only briefly hesitated. After just looking at the IAS Manual, they agreed to move him.
He's now in a GATE cluster, accelerated and loving life. He's eager to go to school, delighted to learn again and working hard on an oral presentation about Thomas Edison. He's the happiest he's been in more than 2 years, which makes me the happiest I've been in 2 years!
