Grinity ~ I was hoping you would respond as you have a lovely blunt but eloquent and compassionate way of responding. Grinity and vicam I like the idea of suggesting she write her questions down first and ask later. I do not know if it will work for her. She has tons of energy and when it goes toward something it is full blast but then the focus changes and it is gone. I can not imagine she will care once class is over. Currently it is the social thing that has her focus. Intparent~ I think the new thing is hard and also saving face as she choose this school. Ellipses~ yup they are not "mother" types. She came from a small charter school with the same teacher for fourth and fifth and the same sixth grade teacher as her fourth grade math (acceleration into sixth grade math). I have more to say but DD is here and so must run. Thank you for ur replies.