Figuring out what's right for our PG little guy is making my head hurt. What I read here and on other gifted sites doesn't really match up with what I hear from school, despite having a supportive administrator. It's enough to drive a parent to drink.
Any suggestions would be appreciated as to how to evaluate and advocate.
Background: DS is 7 and per his assessments, very much an outlier in math ability on the high end (>99.9 on the WIAT-III, I don't have the other results here but all are in same range). He has been accelerated one year for math (to grade 3). They are using a common core-based curriculum and he also gets an enrichment sheet to do for homework. It's not very difficult work, the normal homework (i.e. what everyone gets) is very easy and repetitive. He's only making mistakes when he hurries through it and can almost always find the error if we tell him he has something wrong on a problem.
The teacher seems to think just being in that class is enough enrichment. And... has already mentioned focus and slight behavior problems, along with it being very important to know how he is getting to the answers (had another thread on this, he's playing along well now with writing down how he solved problems). He was getting some pull-out one-on-one enrichment but that person said he has trouble with focus after a few minutes and that he didn't want to do things he didn't understand. (The latter is one of our biggest fears for him... that he will back away instead of digging in, when there is a challenge.)
What I don't feel like I know is what to ask for or what to be looking for on his behalf.
