Thanks for sharing your story, polarbear. It sounds as though your son is quite similar to ours and we have taken a similar approach, with similar results. Maybe a private school that will differentiate is the answer for us, too. It's kind of sad, as we live in an area (a town housing many kids of Harvard and MIT professors) where there are a lot of really bright kids, and DS notes that he is not the only one who is bored. It may be, though, that he is in more desperate need of optimizing his environment as he is prone to frustration and depression.
(The Russian School of Mathematics is a great thing for him. It has branches in several states, I believe.)
aculady, thanks very much for your input. I'll have to look into the laws in Massachusetts to see whether DS could enroll in specials if homeschooled. The very idea of homeschooling makes me weep, but if he could at least join the throng sometimes, maybe it would work.
