If we are talking about testing, do you think it would help to get his IQ tested?
There are a many similarities between your DS and mine at a younger age, but homeschooling wasn’t an option for us, so I addressed his behavioural issues by giving him permission not to do work which he had already mastered and suggesting he find other ways to occupy his mind but also reminding him never to be disruptive because his classmates were there to learn. He absolutely respected this point which endeared him to teachers.
The key to our success was that even though DS was working ahead of, as well as outside, the curriculum, he only did so when he was absolutely sure he had mastered the contents of the curriculum, so he did every assessment task and nailed all of them which is why his teachers were happy for him to do pretty much anything he liked.
So, we’ve found that to spend most of his time outside of the box, DS had to make sure all the formal boxes were always ticked.
