To be clear, I'm not going to go in right away with this.
I think it might be a good idea to go in now, asking for their help.
Class size is below 20. Many kids will be at a very basic level, though--learning letters. It is a weird demographic mix. They do have a reading specialist, but she is paid for with Title 1 funds. There is recess and specials but not a lot of free play time, I suspect. Due to it being a Title 1 school and the demographics, a lot of time will be spent trying to get kids up to state standard.
This is the same situation that we were in, as I described in my above post.
I just want some ideas for things he can do while other kids are doing stuff he really, really, really knows how to do so that he does not comletely lose his marbles. He is highly self-directed and has a beautiful attention span. He can easily sit by himself and read or work on something alone. I will take that. I want to make it easier for them by having some ideas of what to suggest.
Not that it helps, but I just think it's terribly sad that the accommodations your are asking for are for your son to be able to sit and teach himself while all the other kids around him are getting the excitement of learning cool new stuff in Kindergarten (!). Obviously not a comment on you, but on the sad state of gifted education in so many places. I just hope that the school can come up with some great ways to allow your son to feel the joy of learning (which he cleraly already feels naturally) with other students in a school setting. It's still beyond me why educators wouldn't see the natural joy, drive, and ability that our kids have and want to do everything they could to nurture it.
