My DS15 (sophmore in H.S.) was in 3 years of a full time gifted program 4-6th grade. At the time he was not diagnosed as 2E, I had him tested last summer. So at the time school & I were not aware of his struggles even though there were signs. My son struggles with content creations (particularly with writing), has anxiety disorder and once tested I realized his low average processing speed & working memory have probably caused him struggles at school since 4th grade.
My DS's 4th & 5th grade teachers were very good and the program worked out fairly well for him. One sign that should have told me something was day one of 4th grade when the teacher asked the kids to write an essay describing themselves, my son wrote 2 sentences while most other kids wrote 1-2 pages. Once he warmed up to the teacher and class though things got better. Teacher was concerned he had been poorly placed but by the end of the year was saying things to me like 'he reminds me a lot like my own child' and 'he is really a very bright student'. Some of the assignments he did great with like math and others he struggled with more. In general context wasn't a problem if anything the content was still easy.
Sixth grade was a disaster on the other hand. One of the problems I had (he wasn't alone) with our program was it wasn't just for gifted kids, it was also for "high performing" or in other words motivated students. There were insane amounts of homework for 6th graders. My son had more homework than his sister did in H.S. This 6th grade teacher expected these students to have a very high level of executive functioning. So while my son was defiantly "gifted" enough to handle the material in the class, he was slow to get the already crazy amount of homework done, unable to manage and organize due dates. Didn't work well in groups and this class was all about doing LOTS of group work. One of the reasons for the large amount of homework was class time was spent primarily on group discussions, groups projects. Anything that might be normally seatwork was sent home as homework. In February after missing some school for illness my son started having anxiety attacks IN CLASS. Was not fun.. He was already well past grade level, so one way we managed him anxiety was to get the teacher to scale back his expectations from my DS. The principal of the elementary didn't handle it well. I have a few stories where I just took my son out of school for the rest of the day.
Probably should have gotten full testing at that stage but I didn't.. we worked on his anxiety problems and hoped that junior high the next year would help. It did but since we didn't solve all of the underlying issues they got worse again as a freshman in H.S.
Not sure how much of this is useful. Don't mean to scare you, I do think it can work if you have a good relationship with the teacher & resource teacher. And it helps if you go into it knowing there will be bumps along the way.
