The talk in the meeting was all about how this school is so great at differentiating the instruction that these accommodations are things that we do for all of our students etc.... I tried to point out that even if she is in the "accelerated" group - she is still more advanced than those children (she is the only gifted student currently identified in her grade) And then we started talking acceleration. The problem I see with acceleration is that it is a bandaid - when she has access to higher level materials she will still progress faster than her peers meaning in a year or two we'd be looking at acceleration again?! That just seems crazy. We don't have the money for private school, so I really need to find a workable solution with the public school - I just don't know what to do with her, and it seems they don't either. They want to keep her as mainstream as possible and I'm stuck fighting for accommodations I can't even quantify
