What to do when you're advocating for your child, trying to figure out how he can spend less time on things he knows and more time delving deeper into things he loves - and he doesn't want you to?
He's 11 and in grade 6. The area we live in has a one morning a week pullout program. I've met with the school coordinator who knew very little about the options of telescoping, compacting etc. (even though it's on the school districts website re options for gifted children) but who thought it would be a good idea to pursue those options AND was optimistic that the teacher would be open to it.
Met the teacher last night (open house) and she talked around it as though she wasn't in fact open to it at all and was just recently aware that two kids in the class were in the program.
Anyway, back to my question. My son doesn't want anything special. Do I know better or should I leave him be?
Opinions?
