Well, the meeting went okay. We are going to be formally requesting a grade skip, but that will take 90 days. So, in the interim DS8 will be moving to a gifted cluster class on January 5th, and will be subject accelerated in math and language arts. The team agreed that an immediate change was necessary and that DS has not been appropriately challenged/educated.
It was kind of funny though...we had understanding and support from the principal and gifted teacher, but some resistance from the accelerated content teacher and the assistant principal. Two were saying that we will monitor this switch and re-assess in 3 months. The other two were saying that this would be plenty stimulating and they didn't feel he would need further modifications. Hmmmm, definately a divided decision.
Thanks again for all your insight.
Mommyj2
