I understand about people making comments with concern about gaps in learning and just the whole homeschool process. We started homeschooling for K this year and he still goes to the local school to get Speech and OT (DS6 has had an IEP for 3 years). I am SO tired of hearing from his speech and OT teachers about their concerns with me homeschooling him and that he really should be in their kindergarten (they do not offer any gifted services for K right now). We are unschoolers so we let him pretty much set the pace - he HATES any and all workbooks and will spend the day exploring all kinds of things. I know this year is easy for us because I used to teach K in my county and he is way past what is required of the typical K and First Grader that I am not so much worried about the gaps right now...but I know that my concern will grow next year. I finally got his Speech teacher to get off my back....the school has a reading specialist and I asked her last week to help me determine what reading level my little guy was at. He is not an avid reader, but will read for information. After some reading assessments, she let me know that he is reading at a 6th grade level. When the speech teacher cornered me before his speech session she brought up that she knew I had spoken with the specialist....I informed her of the results and asked her again if she thought regular Kindergarten was the best placement for him right now....she of course said some comment along the lines of - gee, I am not so sure that the regular K class would be the best fit for him.
