As far as DS teacher and school go i'm kinda iffy on them this year. His teacher last year is this years mentor. So she has been give an "full date on him" and has told me she is nervous to teach him.
OK I will say yes he is smart but it's not like he is going to collage at 12 or anything.
Our advanced classes here are called gifted and you test for them in 2nd grade. Last year he tested with all the other students and I was surprised to find out he did not get in them. So was his teacher and she had him retested. Which I got to observe.
I believe he truely is gifted at math as he has been doing basic algebra for the last year and he is above average at sicience. In everything else to me he just seems like a good A student. Spelling is probably his worst subject but he still gets A's.
Anyway during his retest for the gift program the test was heavily weighted toward english type questions. It was all verbal with 20 questions 6 of which were spelling and 7 of them were definition type questions. He scored a 90%. He had to score a 97% to be in automatically and above a 93% to be considered for an exception.
So now he is in a class where they spend 10 hours a week working on math. Right now it's adding and subtracting review. He is bored to death already. I really forsee problems with this and I'm not sure what to do.
All I know is there is something wrong with their testing if a 8yr old can do algebra but isn't qualified for advanced classes.
Ok rant over..