Excellent advice from ConnectingDots. Please consider perfectionism a temporary coping mechanism and help your child to develop skills which will serve him better. The following may be of interest:
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old postWe are considering removing him from gifted.
I would advise against this. For continuing growth and development, kids need:
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appropriate academic challenge2)
true peersFor typical kids, these needs may be met in a general ed classroom, however for children with higher IQ/giftedness, these needs may not be met without intentional effort in providing advanced curriculum, and grouping for instruction with academic/intellectual peers.
Even if the curriculum could be vastly improved for your school's "gifted program" there is potential benefit for your child, to be grouped among academic/intellectual peers.
Does anyone else have experience with kids missing so much class time in elementary and switching classes?
Yes. Beginning in 3rd grade. Excellent experience. However, there was one drawback: unlike your school, kids were required to complete homework for missed lessons in the gen ed classroom.