So now I'll try to form a question: what are my next steps? Do I get another set of tests done so he can qualify for the Young Scholars Program and/or Johns Hopkins? Will that help? Is there real support through those programs? Do I simply pull him out and resume homeschooling? (I do have well-thought out resources to do this, and a willingness. I just don't want to keep jerking everyone around.)
Wow - heartbreaking! I read back to your November post and it seems like this teacher is pretty harsh in some ways. Did you have any luck 'going up the food chain' and getting the Principle involved.
Questions:
Originally you felt like the classroom instruction in reading/writing were at a good level for your son - do you still feel this way?
Is it possible to go to the school and meet your son in the library to do Math during school day while the other kids are doing Math?
One possible 'wonderful resource' is khanacademy.org
another is 'Art of Problem Solving' and look at
Athena�s Advanced Academy (Online A3):
http://www.athenasacademy.com/Between these 3 you will find something useable.
For language arts, I hear great things about
http://www.onlineg3.com/I'm thinking that splitting your sons into 2 different schools might be a great thing for your family, and hard, but still less work than homeschooling. Maybe to get your younger back to your neighborhood public as a 3rd grader doing 4th grade math, or as a 4th grader, and next year to send him to wherever the middle schoolers go from your local public.
If the language arts program really does seem like a good fit (which I'm a bit skeptical of - 'The Illead?' - not regular 3rd grade level in my town! They do it in the Honors track for 9th grade!)
Please let us know how things go!
Grinity
