Edwin,
Congrats on the new plan! So glad that they came through and great news on the Super being so supportive. How exciting that she called Davidson! My DS6 was placed in a 4th grade math class at a different school this year. DS is in 2nd grade but skipped K so chronologically should be in 1st and is a younger 6 too. That means that some of the kids in his 4th grade class are about 4 years older then him. Anyhow, it's been about a month and so far it has been great. The kids are very accepting of him and supportive. 4th still isn't a challenge for him but they pull him aside in the class to give him more challenging work and he still gets enrichment and is on the Math Olympiads team this year so that should help him to have some challenges. Not sure what the plan for next year is as I think he will be above 5th grade and may have to go to the middle school at 7..but one step at a time so I am trying not to think too far ahead.
I just wanted to say that our plan for DS6 is to go straight to the other elementary school on their bus. He sits in the front seat with some 5th grade kid he seems to get along with. Then he does morning work with the 4th grade and then they do an hour block of math. Then he goes on a bus by himself back to his other school and goes through the rest of the day with them (there happens to be a bus that goes by there from his school around that time). His 2nd grade class does math at the same time so he doesn't have to make up any work. In the beginning they had a hall monitor walk him back and forth, then they tried to match him with another kid that they thought would be good to walk with him. Now I think he just goes on his own. I am not too worried about the social aspect of the kids in the class because really they are supposed to be doing math and if the teacher has no control over the room and lots of other inappropriate conversations were going on I would be quite concerned. Anyhow, so far so good. thought I would share too because maybe they could work something out so you would only have to make one trip. : ) Hope it works out well and hope it is a smooth transition for DS.
