kindergarten questions

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Destiny will be starting kindergarten this fall, and I'm really starting to

stress.Her RSS issues are fairly mild, compared to a lot of other kids here, but

we're facing an unusual combination of circumstances. Destiny has a little body,

but a big brain. She turned 5 Feb 5th. Right now she's reading Ramona the Pest,

her latest passion is chess, she can add and subtract numbers to ten in her

head, she can recognize a right angle, writes well enough with invented spelling

to be understood by anyone, and so on and so forth.

On the other hand she fatigues more easily than most kids her age, especially in

her hands that are undersized even for her, and although she does well in

taekwondo (just made purple belt) it's an individual endeavor. Realistically

she's behind her age-mates in balance, coordination, speed, strength, etc.

When I talk to the special needs people at the school district they say I should

look into private school. Well I can't afford private school, and in Nevada the

gifted program doesn't start until third grade. I don't want to try to put her

into first grade skipping kindergarten, she's ALREADY smaller than everyone

else, I don't think her hands could handle the writing and I don't think she's

socially any more mature than the typical kid her age, and this week we're

working on giving up naptime and I KNOW she couldn't handle the longer school

day.

I'm just so frustrated! What I want is a kindergarten accelerated program with a

gifted creative teacher in charge.

Unfortunately, I live in Nevada.

Anybody have any ideas short of homeschooling her? I can't do that, I'm a single

parent and most of my time gets taken up keeping all the balls in the air that

I've already got.

Thanks for hearing me vent anyway.