Thank you so much for all the support! I read A nation deceived last night and am feeling a lot better about her need to accelerate. It sounds like you are in a dream school - I can't imagine getting that far with ours, but I sure am going to try. Last night I started looking into charter schools and I found one that looked fantastic, until I realized that there are no state protections for gifted ed in charter schools in PA
I guess it doesn't matter if the program is good, but I really want her to find a "home", I don't want to continuously move her from school to school or grade to grade. I feel that accelerating her this year is a no-brainer, but I'm afraid that after a year or two she'll be ready for another grade skip
She's really well rounded in her gifted-ness, both English and Math, so it seems strange to keep her in the same grade but subject accelerate in .... every class? Life gets so much easier at the high school and college level when there are more options for her. It's these elementary years that are so hard - and so important!!!! It's enough to make any mama crazy. I'll just wait and see what the IOWA scales show and talk with them about a continuous solution and see how far I get. I have no doubt that I'll be back to the boards in a week crying for more help lol.
