No, you can't make class requests. You can try but they don't honor them. I'm very active as an officer in the PTA, and I hope somehow that will be helpful. Our gifted program, which is supposed to be very good and starts at grade 4, is the only thing out there for him, but he's in second grade.
He got a 165 total IQ score on the RIAS and 99th% on the NNAT.
School starts next wednesday- I emailed two days ago the gifted teacher about my 4th grader who is hearing impaired and starting in the program, about his IEP. No response! Maybe they don't check email until after school starts? Grrr...