Totally agree with Grinity.

I'm in a similar boat with my 6-year-old eg/pg son. He's in kindergarten and been in two different gifted schools and he's still bored, though the current gifted school has only 30 kids from pre-k to 8th grade. I've also been told that he may be ADHD as well. We're waiting until the spring to see Dr. Lovecky. She wrote the Different Minds book, http://www.amazon.com/Different-Minds-Children-Asperger-Syndrome/dp/1853029645

I don't want to homeschool either (and I used to teach history) but I see it as the lesser of two evils and as a last resort. I'm going to try to work with our public school district and see if we might be able to swing partial homeschooling and use the public schools for gym, art, music.

Based on our experience, I've found gifted schools aimed at hg/mg kids and not for the eg/pg ones. My son is currently reading Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator; he already read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. That's typical 4th grade reading, but there's no other kindergarter reading 4-5+ grades ahead at this gifted school. So he's starting to stand out and gets self conscious.

Keep in mind your son's social and emotional issues. I saw this article and it reminded me of last year and what happened at the previous gifted school.
(http://www.sengifted.org/archives/a...octor-fit-in-the-care-of-gifted-children)

Gifted kids start to act out when their needs are unfilled. My son started to complain of stomach and other psychosomatic conditions at the last gifted school before we pulled him.

I think as parents we want and expect a school to meet our child's needs, but the harsh reality is that this is not always the case with gifted children. Somewhere on Hoagies site I noticed that 90% of eg/pg kids get homeschooled at some point in their life, which isn't surprising.

I saw this link on the contradictions of pg boys and laughed. How true!
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/my_pg_boys.htm