His teacher called me today and was very nice, though said the pull-out doesn't mean anything, and that she is challenging him in the class. That she allowed him to use a computer program to do a little project on one book, and that he liked that. Said she'd let him go with the differentiation person later in the year. Part of the problem is, I think, that there is no gifted program at the school. Just one differentiation person that meets with students of all different levels. There's no set 'gifted' policy, the school, no, the district, doesn't use that word. For math, a pre-test is taken and then the top-scoring kids go into two classrooms (of approx 20 each) while everyone else goes into the other four classes. But there's no differentiation beyond that for math (which is my son's strongest subject). There is a challenge homework sheet each night which isn't very challenging, so far.
