My son is 13 and at 5'10" taller than some of his 16 year old friends. Because he is tall and talks more like a young adult, people are surprised to find out that he is only 13. We live in a small town that some have described as being like a Norman Rockwell painting. They don't like it when people move here from the city and expect them to change the way they teach when a one size fits all education is all they offer. We have no library but we do have a very nice football field. My son is 2E because of a mild disability that affects him mostly physically so he could not fit in that way and he doesn't fit in because of the giftedness.
My son is homeschooling but if I had to put him back in school I would hope they would put him with kids several years older because he fits in best with them. The only problem is that they are all driving now and he won't be old enough to do that for a while.
