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I beleive a number of public schools just do not know what they will have as far as staff goes. And as for keeping parents in the dark, I believe they do that out of a management style. Otherwise one ES prinicpal may need to field 300-400 parent adjustments. Its an over simlification, but not far from the mark. Regaurdless of their reasns we still need to be our childs best advocate. Our district no longer has Gate in ES. We went with a grade skip, and we push for subject acceleration. We also push for a teacher that will be flexable. Finding an in school acedemic peer group is almost out of the question. But thier are other peer groups we can find, sports, games, etc... Even academicly their are areas where he can fit in, and areas he cannot. If your DD7 likes math look into the Orange County Math Circle, or maybe even Math Zoom. Also UC Irvine has some summer programs.