Hi Mick,
We have had a rough run with the public "gifted" program.
Today we decided to enroll him in a local catholic school.
We just hit the wall with public even after my DS6 finished the math book in 3 hours. They simply cannot give him another book, they cannot go against the standards. Well our school anyway. So we threw in the towel . The catholic school principal said "she can do whatever she wants" So she can pull him out for math, she can let him do john hopkins, she can give him hard books to read. Although other catholic schools have not been willing to accomodate us. I wish you have a better outcome.