School Decisions

Yesterday we met again with the principal at the Christian school we are looking into sending Ethan to. We gave him Ethan's psych. eval. and shared with him what the Dr. had suggested to us regarding Ethan's education. He was very open to trying to make adjustments to what they normally do with kindergarteners so that Ethan can remain challenged. He was totally fine with Ethan leaving one day a week to attend an enrichment program at the public school. We also spoke with the kindergarten teacher who agreed that Ethan would benefit from going to the first grade for math and possibly science. We will be meeting with them again soon, this time with the first grade teacher too. The principal will test Ethan soon so see what math and reading level he is at. Next week I'm meeting with the person who is in charge of the gifted program for the county to talk about the enrichment program. We are trying to be cautious about how we talk about all of this and to keep from talking about it in front of Ethan (don't need any big heads). He's been complaining about boredom in his pre-k class again so his teacher switched from a kindergarten curriculum for him to a first grade one, hopefully this will keep him stimulated. He has a long academic road in front of him that will be frustrating at many times along the way. I've been reading how much gifted kids hate the repetitive nature of traditional education and find it irrelevent. And how they hate worksheets. He has thousands of worksheets ahead of him...