Love all the advice given so far. One thing that we were not prepared for was the school's assumption that our child's behavior issues (they call 'reading all day instead of participating' a behavior issue) are the result of bad parenting, so you may want to prepare yourself for that battle. They wanted to coach us on how to parent instead of discussing appropriate work for our child.
Nice post WannaGT!
I didn't think to post this part because I thought that only happend to us! Isn't it all my fault? The school was very very content to take that path for 2 years. I'm ashamed to say that I was a compliant little parent and it took me 2 years of following their advice in the face of more and more obvious misery from my kid to 'wake up.'
IMHO, every time the school says - he must act this way before we accomidate him, mentally picture a school trying to say the same thing to a child on the other end of the special needs spectrum. Both kids have special learning needs that must be met. High IQ doesn't always equal extraordinary emotional coping mechanisms.
Smiles,
Grinty
