When you have several children but you have one child who challenges you and struggles with the simple stuff in school and life you as a parent try to get to the bottom of what is going on.  This is the start of a new chapter on finding out how my son ticks.  This is about having a gut feeling, which hasn't failed me in the past, and doing a lot of research into the process disorder that my son has.  With the changing of school policies, new common core standards and therapy differences, I believe my son is getting lost in the mix.  This will be a journey, an adventure and a challenge with bumps in the road but I know a smaller setting will allow him to focus on the tougher subjects and work at a slower pace while moving forward with the subject he masters easily. Also, his therapies will not interfere with learning time and we can start to address some social issues in a smaller setting so that a larger setting will no longer be a problem.  There is a lot of research to still be done, curriculum's to be set up and schedules to be laid out.  I am starting the blog out as I tackle his reading level (which is below grade level), math level (which he is amazing at) and what is expected of Third Grade.  Let the research begin.