George and I got a chance to talk last night about our decision for the fall. He and I both have been talking to friends who have walked this road before with their gifted kids and got some good advice. It looks like we are going to try the public school for kindergarten but we don’t want to burn our bridges a the Christian school in case we’re not happy with our decision. I ultimately decided I did not want to have to hold the kindergarten teacher’s hand and constantly be on her about challenging Ethan because if I did that, I might as well teach him myself and save a lot of money. I also did not want to spend the year frustrated with her. I also was disappointed that while they made an attempt to try and arrange schedules so that Ethan could attend first grade classes, when it wouldn’t work they did not come up with an alternate plan. I know that teachers are by nature and training planners and I was suprised that they had not come up with a specific plan for different ways they would keep Ethan from boredom while the class is learning that A says ahhh and B says buh. A friend that I spoke to said she would pray for contentment for our decision and that’s definitely what we need. I don’t want to spend the whole year thinking “If only..” so I’m praying for contentment with this decision and that God would bless it. I think God is trying to teach me something through this whole experience. Anyone who’s read my blog for a long time will know that I really wanted to home school the kids and my husband is not comfortable with it so we compromised on the Christian school. Ironically, as it turns out, Ethan is too intelligent for me to homeschool for very long (did I mention that when we went to the gifted classroom this week the class was working on a complicated algebraic math problem?) and also too intelligent for the kindergarten class in private school. So we come back to the schooling choice I would have never chosen. God leads us to places we often would not have expected on our journey here and while I’m disappointed with this change in plans, I am also excited to see what God has in store for me and for Ethan this next year.