Oh Happy Day

Today has been an amazing day. Well, not amazing, but really, really good. We like good days around our house.

I had a meeting at Froggie's school to review his IEP and discuss his progress so far in middle school. I figured since he's been there 2 weeks, they've had time to come up with a laundry list of questions for me...and I wanted to check on him.

I was a little concerned going in because yesterday one of his teachers emailed me and let me know he'd used a couple of racial slurs against a little girl in his class. This girl has been in his class for several years, and they get along great, so I was surprised. But I was afraid of what that might mean during the IEP meeting.

Turns out, FrogBoy's doing great. To the point that all of his teachers placed him in the top half of his class as far as making the transition to middle school and coming to class prepared and doing grade level work. The extra accommodations we put in his IEP last year don't even seem to be needed at this point...he's handling things that well.

The best part? His science teacher said he's so talented in science she would like to move him to the Honors class. She's not, but only because it's a larger class than the Advanced class, and she wants to be able to offer him more individual attention. But she's bringing in Honors work for him so he won't get bored. And he's smart enough to handle the work.

In our house, this constitutes a VERY GOOD DAY.