The new school is also private. I have a friend with a kid in the local public school's gifted program, and she thinks her kid is less gifted than mine and is not being adequately challenged, so I'm not too enthusiastic about looking into that. It's not a good school district.
The new school does seem to have some sense of what to do with gifted kids. The old school accelerated her a year in math, and the new school was prepared to continue that. It was surprising to me how few of the private schools in our area seemed willing to even let her continue in accelerated math; most of them had a "we are capable of challenging all students in our regular classes" attitude.
Nothing has ever been hard for her, and I'm worried about that--worried that she has never learned to work past a real challenge. On the other hand, she does complain when she finds a topic too easy, and comes home saying that she is bored.
