I'm curious why you say your ds is a verbal kid and not a "mathy" kid? What makes a verbal vs mathy kid with respect to what you see and know about your ds? Does he have areas in school that he is really passionate about? He's clearly *able* to succeed easily in math... but otoh, if he's really not all that interested in it, have you thought about not worrying about whether or not he's able to accelerate past the kids who he could track into an accelerated middle school program with?
I am a proponent of radical acceleration when the child is pushing for it and craves it, but when it's something that creates a logistical issue where you have issues with providing rides to school or a child is going to be in a school for one class only without peers or friends or it's a school that you have other concerns about (safety or whatever)... I think it's also ok to look at the whole situation and think about whether or not your child is really gaining something important from the acceleration or if it's just acceleration because he's able.
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