A few years ago, wee made some tough decisions about our daughter's academics and we finally are getting some real confirmation we made the right moves.

In her school, their grading scale is 4 - 1. It's very odd but the grades go 1, 2, 3, 3* or 4. Scores of 1 or 2 indicate performance below grade level. 3 indicates performance at grade level and 3* means performance at grade level with evidence of application and 4 indicates performance above grade level. The 3 means you are right where you are supposed to be and doing fine, 3* means you did really well but 4 means WOW.

For the first time ever on a report card, Hayley got a 4!! Overall she got 4, 3*, 3, 3, and 3. We are SO proud of her. It's been great to see her not just learn but share and get excited over things.

On the conduct/work habits (ie behavior) section - all checks. She's normally got a few missing there, haha. And under 'interventions' which are extra things the school will do/offer to help her, for the first time ever there is nothing listed.

Please don't think I'm being a braggart over this. She's just never done this well and it took a lot of work from all of us to get to this point (mostly her of course!).