I know I should probably just talk with g/t coordinator, though she doesn't accomodate until 3rd grade ( unless I guess, "extreme cases"...Whatever that means!)Do any of you ever feel like you are ALWAYS asking for more and feel like you're being a pain in the rear??? Our school has accomodated Ds9 so much, and I guess I'm just feeling like I shouldn't be so greedy, though I know it's the right thing to do for my Dd....Sigh, why does this advocating stuff always seem so tiring???
Your DD, it sounds like, is an "extreme case" probably! But, I totally get what you mean about being a pain in the rear. Our school was so good with DD8 about early K entrance and then subject acceleration and then grade-skipping, and then I went and asked them to let DS6 skip K, and I feel like they've probably had enough of me! To be fair, though, they've never shown any annoyance with me and we've never had to fight too hard. Still, my DS6 is able to do math 1-2 years above grade level and is reading at a mid-3rd grade level, and for some reason I'm hesitant to suggest subject acceleration for him, even though I did for our DD. It's not that I think he can't handle it socially since he routinely plays with kids several years older than him and he clearly needs the challenge, it's really that I hate always having to ask for more. I feel like a bit of a chicken just asking for in-class accomodations for work in his free-time (because he gets all his other work done so quickly)!
