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Well, we have had a very interesting week...Wednesday morning he finally stayed the morning on "excellent" for behavior and when I met him for lunch he was giddy...and gee - surprise, they did math and science that morning and he said he "loved,loved,loved" doing the experiments. I am hoping the teacher put 2 and 2 together - gee....motivated, interested, excited kid=well behaved kid. Then he lost it in the afternoon....back down to "good". I got a call this morning from the guidance counselor stating she checked in on him and again he is on excellent and having an awesome morning so she asked us if we would be interested in trying something (as I crossed my fingers hoping she would say 1/2 day.....) and YES, she said if he stays til 12 he is considered a full time student and suggested a half day program...with sensory kids, they hold themselves together all morning in school settings trying their darmdest to not melt down and then by the afternoon their little systems have had enough so the slightest anything sets them off...so I can come pick him up and do homeschooling in the afternoon with him...so we get the best of both worlds. She was very positive and said that she felt this would be really good for him because he is so focused and works so hard all morning and being successful with both work and behavior that she wants to build on that instead of him ending the day on a lesser note. She said we will do this for awhile until he gets more comfortable with everything and then look at adding on more time until he is back to a full day if we want, we meet on Tuesday with a HUGE team for his IEP meeting to get things going in place in the classroom. The school psychologist called me last night and said that he does qualify for acceleration and the gifted program but that they didn't want to throw that at him right now because it would just be more transitions for him to deal with but would like to work up to that goal.....so I am just happy that this is an option for us....anyone else doing 1/2 day deals?