Thanks for all the sharing again! Moving may or may not be an option. I have already moved 18 months ago and just gotten DS9 settled into a school and accelerated a year. DD16 and DD15 both got settled into their unis and DS18 had to transfer credits into a new college and graduating soon. Though I am open to it, I had wanted to wait another 2 years or so for DD16 to graduate or she will have to do transfer credits for a second time, and might lose some credits.
I see that I am in the same position as folks like Howler Karma and Cricket2 who are left with little option except to accelerate the children. My problems come with the many behavioral problems when he attends school at any grade. I have been called up so many times to go fetch him from school, it is tiring. There were times he hid in the bathroom afraid of being beaten up by others, and there were times he was accused of bullying kids his age and suspensions.
We tried college out of curiosity and trial and error, and was pleasantly surprised by his ability to cope with the social environment, and he is also good with professors who are more accommodative than teachers. My worry is actually his executive skills.
Jewel, DS12 will be turning 13 in a few months too! I think getting him to 700 should be doable, but I'd need him to sit down and listening and negotiating with me for a few days before we find out what he cannot do on the test. It took me two weeks of priming him about a coming Saturday test before he actually agreed to do that. I had to be there at the test centre, and bought lots of chocolates, drinks and McDonald's breakfast. Once we got there and the chocolates were there, the four hours passed quickly. Thanks for the info indeed, I will look into SET. I was a little concerned over his CR and Writing because he is a 'literally' person and always tested higher for English over Math since young. It seems his Math score has caught up... wonder if such a switch in subject/domain strength is common... or was the test format something he couldn't understand.
