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Today is the day, dd's school is going to review her trial skip period and decide want to do for the rest of this year and next. It should be a no brainer, but it seems like these meetings and doubts are never going to end. I see a happy kid, making friends, welcomed and accepted by her new class(this is new), making eye contact with teachers and peers (this is also new), producing more written output than ever before, with suddenly legible handwriting, doing more work on projects than is asked of her, and sleeping soundly at night. She does forget to bring homework home sometimes, so it is sometimes late. She is still catching up on cursive and typing with the older kids. Since she wasn't doing either in December, I don't see why its a big deal as long as she is showing lots of improvement. We haven't been invited to this meeting and I'm feeling very pregnant and worried about everything. I cannot wait until today is over.

good luck!

What grade is she skipping?

I am curious why you would not be invited to the meeting?

I would think they would want you at the meeting too, so they could get your input. I hope it goes well though.

When are you due? Pregnant hormones are never fun, but especially not when you have anything extra to worry about.

She'll hopefully be skipping the rest of 3rd.

Maybe we weren't invited to the meeting because I'm due any time and they are trying to be nice? Or maybe its because we had to go over some people's heads and I don't think they are happy about it. There are certainly some 2E issues and its a private school, so they they really need to decide if its worth it for them to meet her needs. I know they like my dd, but she is inconvenient.

good luck!

Oh, I always get edgy about "you're not invited" meetings like that.

Best wishes for a good outcome today.

LOL - to all the world's inconvenient children - a toast!
I can't believe the poor timing! Go scrub something - I predict they will be fine with the skip, and if I'm wrong, we can deal with it later.

It might help for you to send a brief email to the meeting filling them in on the positive changes you see, just like the above post, maybe in bullet form?

Then go scrub something.
Love and More Love,
Grinity - do you have a name and a 'pseudonym' picked out?

Great idea!

I, too, have well liked inconvenient children. My older dd has become less inconvenient post-acceleration but I suspect that my dd10 continues to be an inconvenience. She seems to be 2e as well which is easy for schools to ignore and pretend that neither exceptionality exists.