My 8th grade ds isn't home to answer at the moment, but if I asked for his input, I suspect his pie-in-the-sky dream would be classes that truly moved at an accelerated pace. Our school district offers "honors" classes and a HG track, subject acceleration in math and honors classes in LA / Science that can lead to subject-acceleration in high school, but none of those classes are truly accelerated in terms of the actual pace of the classes - they are basically just the same-pace classes offered a year or two ahead of schedule.
I'd add don't confuse gifted programming with an "opportunity to require higher levels of demanding homework". Kids still need a chance to be kids, take part in sports, hang-outs, etc after school rather than being swamped with huge levels of homework.
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