Polarbear, DS is now skipping first with spelling as his weakest area. The school has strongly recommended that we catch him up to a second grade level before August.

If that were all if it, I'd tell them to jump in a lake and educate the kid, and not the kid they wish he was, but as it is, he will not be able to enter the appropriate level of math right because of his writing skills.

No, I'm not really happy about this. We're making the best of the less-the-perfect situation.