My difficult child isn't in the gifted education curriculum but he is in a school for advanced studies. He's a 2nd grader but all of his work is a 3rd grade level and until the last 3 or 4 weeks he has been making mostly straight A's & B's. We placed him there because we had 2 different psychologists and a developmental pediatrician tell us it would make a huge difference to be in a school where he was mentally challenged and I honestly agree. He certainly has more friends where he is. I also see a higher percentage of kids in his class with problems similar to his though not as extreme.
As it is the principal, his teachers and the gifted education coordinator are pressuring us to screen him for actual placement into the gifted program where he would have to work even harder and right now I'm not seeing where that is a good thing. I'm getting to the point where I'm not so sure this isn't too much for him despite the fact he's doing (well, was) very well in school and the approach in the regular classroom seems very low pressure.
