This year, my ds is a kindy in a creative (less-structured) gifted school (pre-k to 8th grade in one-room schoolhouse) and he is whizzing through the reading and writing. He's now reading at 3rd grade or above and writing sentences. He's starting to grumble about the lack of math and other academic opportunities, which are normally offered at the 3rd grade level or higher.
If the school is a one room school house, and has material up to grade 8, why in the world would they deny him math and other academic opportunities at his level? What did they say? In the long run it doesn't matter what he scores on an IQ test as long as he keeps getting acadmic material inside his readiness level.
DYS is great for social opportunities for the parent and the child, but any school that truely wants to accomidate your child can ask for help at Davidson's Cybereducator's Guild. It's not limited to kids who are in the Young Scholar's Program.
It's a mystery for sure, but the key part is that he have a chance to interact with kids who are in some senses peers and get academic material within the ballpark of his readiness level.
Peace,
Grinity
