OK,it's official, or will be as soon as I notify the school. We're now offical home schoolers. We're aiming for a trial period of 2 years, which would bring him into a new school with everyone else if we decide to send him back for 5th. Home school is SO not me! Off on an adventure outside my whatever the expression is. Comfort level? Oh well, should be interesting.

Congratulations, Jool. So happy to see a school making an effort. Hope it works well.

Our two eldest (recently 6 and 8) will be going to a private school that is not officially gifted/talented but seems to work out that way. They group based on ability. When I took my eldest for a visit last October and showed his teacher what he was doing with me at home, she just did the same stuff with him, and also taught him something new.

She told me later that to them, it's only logical that the kids do what they're ready for and that there isn't much point in having them repeat what they already know. Woof---I could have hugged her.

Val

DD9 will continue in her public school.

This is what it's looking like for us:

DS13 - sophomore public high school (though the new principal said he would support DS taking AP English next year!)

DS11 & DS9 - 8th & 6th grades at charter middle school with some kind of advanced math accommodation (online? Community College?)

DS6 - 3rd grader at public elementary school PEGS class (grades 3-5 for IQs above 145)

The two I post about here, DS11 and DS8, go to a private gifted school. DS8 will go to 5th grade next fall and DS11 to 8th. In December, DS11 and his father and I will re-evaluate, and depending on the accomodations being provided by the school, might enroll him in an online high school program at that time.

LOL.... I'll post an intro, really I will! But I've sat down to type and four times wandered away to do something else, so it might be a few minutes

Erica

They have a waiting list every year and usually only admit at age 3. Luckily for us a family with a 4 year old is moving at the end of this school year and a spot opened up. They do give preference to siblings so DD3 (almost 4) will take the spot in September.

Jool--congrats on the grade skip!

Hooray! I'm glad to hear that the school is working with you.

Mostly a lurker here, but DS5 will be starting Kindergarten at a private gifted school in September. It is somewhat beyond our financial comfort zone, but we met with the principal of what would have been his public elementary school and didn't walk away feeling that his needs would be met. He is not super mature and skipping him ahead right now doesn't seem like a great option. He will do better socially with kids his own age.