It has happened

I placed Mim into 5th grade upon her homecoming and she has been fine with this UNTIL her birthday. She now has real awareness of the fact that she is 2 years older than her classmates. Last night I talked with her about this and I told her if it was really bothering her, I would have her placed into 7th grade instead of 6th grade next year. I also told her that it was her decision, and naturally we talked about why she had been placed into 5th grade etc.,. I shared that if we placed her into 7th grade, she would still be 1 year behind, and she would have more homework, but closer to her age group. She told me tonight that she wanted to go to 7th grade next year.

Thank goodness I talked with our guidance counselor today and asked how we would go about this...it sounds like all I have to do is let them know..our advantage is that Mim will be going to my junior high next year so we will be in the same school for the next 3 years, plus we have a strong ESL program since we have many Hmong immigrants in our town.