Between my stress with DS6's behavior lately and then him going from being homeschooled for K last year to started public school First grade next monday, I feel like I am graying as we speak!
We had a whole battery of tests (IQ and achievement testing) done this summer by a private psych because the public schools refused since he was being homeschooled. They very clearly show a Highly gifted child working at least one grade level ahead of where he would normally be and in some cases 2 grade levels ahead. With his dypraxia, he scored very low on the handwriting portion of the Woodcock Johnson - gee - no surprise there!
Anyways...after many calls between the principal and an advocate we hired to help us fine tune his IEP that he has had since he was 3 so that it is acceptable for a classroom instead of homeschool environment...it appears that they are only going to "look" at his test reports, they are not going to accept my K portfolio that I have kept all last year with all the work and projects we did(and throw in the fact that I am a certified K teacher and had worked in the county for years before leaving to homeschool) and that tomorrow he has to go into a complete stranger K teacher's classroom at the school and sit down and complete several assessments to determine if he "passed" K and can be placed in a First Grade class room...I am SO mad about the whole thing - we have a full report showing very clearly he is well past K along with all of his school work from last year that we did and they are still going to make him take yet another slew of assessments.
When DS6 meets people for the first time, he either is perfectly fine, or he acts silly or he completely ignores them.....so this could go well or turn into a nightmare...what if he refuses to answer or pulls his, "I'm tired" and just says, "I don't know" when he very much knows the answer! I haven't gone into a lot of explanation about tomorrow other than telling him that he is going to meet a K teacher and she is going to ask him some things about stuff he learned last year...I am just worried that he will have an Off day and not do well and then the school will just go, oh well, he didn't pass the assessments so he will be placed in K which would be a nightmare (he is the size of a 10 year old and will be 7 in Jan). not to mention he is several grade levels ahead of K.
Just needed to vent and have everyone keep fingers crossed that mister tornado child will just be his normal charming self :-)
