Addendum

Good news on the school front: There will definitely be four, not three, second grade classes next year. I ran into AJ's teacher on the playground after school and she filled me in. She also said that right after she'd sent her reply to my email, the principal walked into her room to ask her about AJ. So it sounds like a principal meeting really won't be necessary. I am going ahead with the meeting with the gifted teacher and hope that it can at least partly about planning, no doubt at a preliminary level, since we still don't know his teacher and won't until August, at a curricular level for next year.