We had a horrible pre-school experience where he hated going to school, asked to stay home and his behavour was bad...but he was perfectly fine at the place. We took him out when the school basically said 'its not our problem' and a lot of suggestions that there was something wrong with him. He spent the next month led on the sofa watching TV all day with no interest in anything (i now think he was depressed). 6 months later my Dp and I started saying 'oh i remember he was like this before... It basically took 6 months for him to be truely happy again.
This is why i'm so frightened..it was such a gradual decline that it wasn't till it was bad that we noticed, then when we acted we were dismissed.
Hi Mewsie -
I really feel for you on this on - no wonder you are 2nd guessing yourself.
I agree with Dottie that public schools can be wonderful places for HG/PG kids - IF, and it's a rather large IF, the school comes through with REAL accomidations, such as your school did last year with the 'subject acceleration.' Ask Dottie how many full grade skips and subject accelerations her DS needed to get to a point where Public School is working for him? Sure it happens over time, but what I would be looking for at this meeting is something like -
Child was happy last year with 'going up for Math' and is sad this year with 'In Class Differentiation' - let's try having him go up for Math again, ok?
Best Wishes,
Grinity
