Originally Posted by howdy
I think that, as you describe it, the situation for your son is not too bad, considering it is Kindergarten.
Unfortunately, sensing a need in kindergarten and finding that need to be unmet may result in an earlier cascade of negative impacts:
- child is bored in school
- child disengages
- child learns that teachers have nothing new to share
- child generalizes this and becomes disappointed in adults
- child skates through easy work and does not learn study skills
- child experiences brain changes from lack of learning in his/her zone of proximal development (ZPD)
- child becomes an underachiever
- child has a poor self-concept and a bad attitude

Gifted kids have needs. These can often be apparent at a very young age.

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Looking forward to future plans, I think you might want to keep in mind that the differentiation needs to include actually teaching him new things and it should not be isolating. And yes, he should not have to do all the regular classwork in addition to the more challenging work.

So sitting apart from the other kids doing a packet of harder work that no one instructed him on -- is not going to work, in my opinion. But first you need to see what they are planning.
Agreed!