We have had moderate success at public school. It has been a process and will continue to be a process over time. DS7 attended the public school in K (1/2 day) when he was 5, the K teacher noticed his math level and arranged with a 2nd grade teacher to have him go to her room for additional math, at home we used Singapore workbooks for fun. We did meet with the principal and later the district to speak about future accommodations. Nothing was decided but the school and the district became aware of the issue�s. In 1st he attended a Private HG school; they moved him to Rm 2 for math which is somewhat like 3rd grade level. This sort of worked (He processing speed was to slow to move on to higher level). We had him tested him with the WJ III achievement test, his math score was very high. Because of distance issues we came back to the public school for 2nd grade. We approached the school in June of last year with his IQ and achievement test, a letter from his current teacher, and examples of some of his work. We asked for an overall grade skip, and that he be moved to 4th or 5th grade for math, or allow him to use EPGY in the classroom (At that point we had not started the courses). The school agreed to the skip, and would see what they could do with the math. We started the EPGY about one month before school, and DS7 liked it. The school moved him to 4th grade math, but this has created a scheduling problem, 3rd and 4th do not do math at the same time. DS7s teacher has agreed to allow him to do EPGY instead of 3rd grade math during 3rd Grade math time. The problem has been that he has to catch up on what he missed when he is in the 4th grade class, during his 3rd grade (EPGY) math time. So overall the school has agreed, but they use it to augment what they go over, and they still give him some 3rd grade worksheets. Also his overall time completing EPGY since September has been less then a quarter of what he did in three weeks at home during the summer. I will be arranging another meeting to see if he can just do EPGY and only test out of 3rd and 4th grade math. He recently completed the SCAT test and scored well on math, hopefully this will work. It has not been a great fit, but is much better the keeping him in 2nd doing 2nd grade math. I have also started a math club at school for 4th and 5th graders doing the math Olympiad program. This has been very challenging for DS7, the other students, and me. The good thing is that the school sees my effort, and hopefully they will work with us on these future changes.
