Well, the schedule that I came up with actually worked out, so he starts on Tuesday. They're out of school on Monday.
DS10 will have 6th grade writing and reading and homeroom, all in the same classroom, then 6th grade social studies, then that class walks over to the elementary for art, which is the same teacher he has now except a 6th grade class instead. He will have half an hour of that (it's an hour class) and then leave for lunch with 5th grade. After lunch, he will have 5th grade specials (PE, art, music, computers, etc.) and then half an hour of homework time because there is no class that fits quite right into that space. Then he goes to 7th grade math, and then back to 5th grade for science at the end of the day.
That's only two new MS teachers in addition to what he's had already.
Next year, since he will have had all the academic subjects except science at the 6th grade level, he will go straight to 7th grade except for math which will be 8th grade. I am going to lobby hard for him to have 6th grade PE, as he will then be two years younger than his class instead of only one. And he's a skinny thing anyway.
My only real concern other than that is that he will be missing 3/4 of the year of 5th grade social studies (Oregon Trail project, which I've been looking forward to, and the start of the Revolutionary War, among other things) and also all of 6th grade science. They are getting me the curriculum for both of those so we can try to pour some of that into him when he's not looking.
All in all, a great move which really heads where I was hoping we could go in this process. I remember middle school, and the more we can skip of that, the better. Of course, we've lost the class of 2020 now, which was a cool moniker, and we're into the territory of being 16 for the whole senior year (15 for the first week or so), assuming we stay on this path. One thing at a time.
Another good thing is that MS uses Power School online so we can see all his assignments and due dates, tests, and grades.
