Mon...

Thanks tor the advice. I have emailed the teacher my concern that ds is ahead AND older. Her take was "he'll be a leader and won't struggle academically"...yay. They have not really done any skills assessment, so I'm sure she's not aware how ahead he is (I've given her examples of reading/math but who knows if she thinks I'm delusional).

I don't even really know where he is either. I think he reads around a third grade level (?), but has a much higher grasp on vocabulary. His math is advanced but there are pockets he's missing like money and memorized tables. We talked about money this weekend (he loves "car trip trivia"). Once he remembered the values of the nickel vs dime (he gets them confused) he was able to do the simple mental figuring of "how many pennies (dimes, nickels, quarters) in a dollar" and more challenging "how do you get to a dollar using only dimes and quarters?" (for example). Is that first grade math? He understands the concept of multiplication and division and intuitively knows how to regroup. But has really only done math in his head.

Yes...we need an achievement test for sure as I'm obviously unaware of when and what kids are typically learning.