mountainmom2011 - It seems to vary wildly between school to school and state to state. I know in the public school my kids were attending, teacher comments were information number 1, and without a teacher recommendation, including proper behavior, there was no chance they could get into the program prior to grade 3. We are currently in the process at DS's new charter school, and teacher input seems much less important, but we don't know for certain yet.

~amy