Welcome ((smile and hug))
I've got a few questions -
1) Can you homeschool?
2) Can you move to Reno?
3) Have you applied to Davidson?
4) Have you read Re-forming Gifted Education?
5) Do you allow your son videogames? TV? what guidelines?
Here's some "gross" generalizations -
1) Kids who don't have access to electronic media keep their own initiative to learn much longer.
2) Kids who don't have to spend more than 3 hours a day in public school keep their own initiatvie to learn much longer.
3) The time to really "stuff them full of information and ideas" is when they are age 4-9 and "parent centered." Age peer interactions are find for summer camp, team sports or scouting. Remember kids are discouraged from developing social relationships in school - what they are being encouraged is to adjust to a "group" environment.
4) by age 10 - 12 you'll see a shift of interest to peer or other adult mentor. this is the time to develop social relationships outside the family. Some kids loose interest in "academic pursuits," some maintain their interests. Others are ready for community college, university, or perhaps Davidson Academy in Reno.
Take home messages is - your son sounds wonderful and ready to learn and soak up everything he can about learning about the world around him. Make the world around him as enriched as you can manage. Write back with more questions -
Smiles
Trinity
