We are trying to decide what to do with DD 8 (current second grader) for next year. DD attends a small private school and has since kindergarten. The school runs about a year ahead of our local public school. There are no gifted programs or services at her current school. They are perfectly willing to do a grade skip but her teacher says the class she would be skipped to is a nightmare, 7 or 8 kids that struggle academically plus a few behavior problems, there is only one class so no other options. Her class is more advanced as a group and pretty well behaved, they also mesh well. We thought that DD was fine with the lack of enrichment . She is an avid reader so does that a lot on her own but we recently started letting her work with a math professor for enrichment (she asked) and she has advanced three grade levels in two months. We live in a state where gifted services are mandated and our local public school has a once a week pull out program for elementary and we are thinking about that for next year. It is so hard to know what to do, so what kind of experiences have you had at public? Private ? There are no gifted schools in our area. DD scored at the 99.9th percentile in all cognitive areas w/ the exception of processing speed which was high average, all academics were 99th percentile and DKEFS measured very superior executive functioning. I guess I did not realize how much doing nothing was not working!
