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I posted here a while back about my son. Last year he was in pre-K and the year was so, so bad. I'd get calls about once a week to go pick him up because they couldn't handle him.

This year I moved him to a public Montessori. They told me before I moved him that they would be able to test him and move him up to a different grade for the things that he was advanced in. I was SO excited about this. I talked to the teacher last week at open house and she said that because my son is "fidigity" they want to wait until after Christmas to test him because they don't think he'll be able to sit still long enough in a higher grade. This week I started getting notes home like last year. I'm now so scared that this year will end up being just like last. He's bored out of his mind and does all that he can to make the other kids laugh just so he can get some entertainment out of school.

SI was going to wait it out until Christmas and hope that he could sit quietly enough during the day not to get into too much trouble but I don't see that happening.

Last year they were telling me that he had severe behavior problems (because he wanted to do things like count in Spanish instead of English) so I took him to his pediatrician a few weeks ago. His pediatrician said that my son was an absolutely normal highly intelligent 4 year old. That he wished the school board had a program like him and wished he could do something to help us. He said that the complaints last year that he would tune out are just because he was bored. After sitting with my son for about an hour he said that he can tell that if he's interested he can focus really well but when he gets bored he tunes out.

So what do I do? Should I wait it out and see what happens at Christmas or go in and talk to them now? I don't want to cause problems and I teach him a lot at home so I'm not worried about him not learning. I just want him to be somewhat stimulated at school so that he doesn't cause problems. At this point I'm ready to pull him out and homeschool him but because I work full time I'm not sure how I can work that out.