In the meantime, DS6 will be accelerated in math only. The gifted support team at the school has presented two options: he can move up to 3rd grade math right now or he can stay in the 1st grade classroom and do ALEKS during math time.
ALEKS would be the least disruptive, but I feel like it is the modern day equivalent of giving a kid a workbook and putting him in the corner.
I'd put him in the class.
My DS did so much ALEKS that there's literally no appropriate placement for him: he got further and further out of sync with peers, and yet ALEKS is not really a complete curriculum, so there are some weird gaps in problem-solving skills.
He would have done better to simply be grade-accelerated from much earlier in his career, had that been an option.
DeeDee
