I would work into it that your goal is for him to learn (or continue to learn) to work within the classroom instruction setting with his math, rather than being isolated with online instruction or worksheets off by himself. That's what we're struggling with here, with DS8 who is in 5th grade math and now working with a HS teacher on ALEKS. Our school, while fabulous in most ways, still has that quirk about sending him to middle school with the big kids. We're working on it. smile