I think we are going to stick with public school for next year. The private gifted schools near us are $18k, and it was a good point that another poster had that funds a great deal of outside enrichment. Plus if we did private gifted school we would probably need to cut back on outside activities and maybe therapies to fund it.
We had a very positive meeting with the public school administration last week, and they seem willing to work with us. They don't dispute any of the gifted or 2e findings... But it probably didn't hurt that we had a well-respected by the school neuro-psych there with tests and reports to back things up as well as DS's OT. I guess only time will tell if it will be enough. They did point out that what my DS needs is outside of what is mandated by law (which I agree as our state doesn't have a mandate for gifted ed and even those areas where his 2e come into play are at grade level or above), but they are willing to go outside of that. They seem to have a plan to address his difficulties with writing and spelling, but I still don't feel like he is going to get the academic challenge he needs. His teacher is caught up on the fact that even though he is well past grade level, she wants to make sure he doesn't have any gaps that could cause difficulties down the road. I agree in principal, but I wish she would see she that she could go much faster through the material and he would be much less bored. Also she seems to think since he doesn't know his math facts automatically that he shouldn't have the higher level material.
Thanks for all the advice and thoughts!
