Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy Bring it up to the teacher?

I would say: There is no need to withhold information unless it will hurt the cause.

The problem is, it can almost always hurt the cause, by burning your political capital and making you seem like That Parent.

Is the only realistic way to get any accommodations is via outside help (e.g. formal test, DYS)?

I think all kindergarten teachers like to know that the kids are happy. If the math being easy is making your kid unhappy, I think that is worth bringing up to the teacher. But like others have said, what is your goal? Is the grade level instruction too easy, or just the homework? Do you want to substitute harder homework? Do you want to see if he can go up a grade for math? First figure out what you want, and then go talk with the teacher. I don't think asking for something like the ability to learn new material, just like all the other kids get to do, should make you "That Mom". And who cares if it does? You can be That Mom if it works.

We did this. It only takes 5 minutes or less at this age to teach something that is cool. And the back of the paper is blank. I usually left one unsolved problem on there also. The hard part was getting him to put his name on the paper.