Thanks for asking, I guess I'd say it was good and bad.
Good on the LD side in that most of the accommodations in his IEP are no longer necessary and his writing (his weakness) is basically now at grade level. Last year it was like pulling teeth to get him to write a short sentence or even to get him to tell us what to write so we could scribe it. Now he's writing paragraphs with the occasional reminder to stay on task (and she said she does that for most of the kids). We're going to leave everything in the IEP for now in case the increased work next year makes it necessary again.
Bad in that differentiation is their only solution to the gifted side until the one day pull out starts in grade 4. I might be ok with that if they actually DID differentiation but they don't really. He just came home with another sheet of ridiculously easy math problems that his sister in kindergarten easily did. He's starting to get frustrated about the amount of repeating that is done and I suspect this will come out in his behavior eventually. At this point I'm just hoping we can make it through to the end of the year before it does and then we can regroup. I really do like this teacher and we've made some amazing progress on the LD side so this is going to have to wait. In a perfect world I'd home school math for him but I haven't figured out a way to get him out of their math.....
Definitely a journey and it's nice to know we're not alone. Good luck with the private school for your DD.
