Well, I wasn't taking any chances....we skipped the last quarter of 3rd grade just in case,
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ROTFLOL!!
What I found with DS when he was eight, was that he "evened out" with himself. Not that he suddenly turned normal (ha!) but that he was no longer "all over the place" with levels. He was settling into a narrower band of abilities. The biggest thing was that his spelling caught up (still not stellar, but not so glaringly obvious!) So I can kind of see something going on at 3rd grade that might pass for "evening out" but it isn't what people seem to think it is... not that everyone suddenly turns eight and snaps into lockstep, but that some of the things that were going slowly before kind of fall into place.
Or it could just be him.
