We are in Florida also and we hear the same excuse from the gifted "experts" about schooling:

Originally Posted by whattodo?
The gifted coordinator's response was DS has to learn he cannot always go at his own pace. My response was he goes to school to learn not to learn that he is not allowed to learned. She said they will run out of math curriculum to teach him in elementary school if the move him too quickly.
( Adding on to that, our gifted peeps said DS doesn't even need to be in school for academics, he needs to be in school for social skills. )

If your school has offered you a skip, take it. Then next year maybe they will give you another, or you can advocate for another. I hope you have better luck than we have. The Florida public gifted school DS is in will not skip him, despite being in DYS and having DYS help us advocate.

As someone else mentioned to you, get your DS in DYS for all the help you can get!