Grinity- to answer some of your questions: school is full day. There is a gifted program. Yet for k and 1st grade, you have to first meet with the principal and gifted coordinator. I have tried emailing gifted coordinator with no response. I guess in 1st grade, they do CoGat testing and can get automatically referred from that. My ds map scores were 99% in reading and 93% in math. His teacher said these were very good. I think since my ds "acts" okay most of the time at school, the teacher doesn't really believe the reports I'm telling her. Also, I think the teacher really like ds, so she doesn't want to think he is unhappy. I guess I'm going to try to email her again. To be continued....