Thank you, momtofour! It certainly does make sense and recently, I've found the same to be true with our DS. And congratulations to your DS for taking the test and showing his strengths!
As for the middle school, they only have the gifted program half the year and it seems to be an "extra" class. I'm not sure what that means yet, but I sure wish our schools did have full-time gifted classes. Part of my frustration with our school system is that they don't cluster according to ability and so a lot of time is spent going over and over the material.
We've always figured we could "make up the difference" at home but now I'm starting to think I've done a disservice by not being a stronger advocate. There's always now, though.
