Welcome. You have come to the right place. This board has been a wealth of information for me while taking a similar journey to yours!
I honestly feel they have had no training in recognizing gifted traits.
They probably haven’t! We had a very similar situation with our DS7 back when he was in K. Every behavioral problem could be explained by his giftedness and undiagnosed 2E. They just didn’t see it that way and preferred to blame his behaviors on bad parenting. I think they believed that the definition of giftedness is synonymous to what we called the “teacher’s pet” growing up. (Do they still use that idiom today? And I mean no offense by using that term – it was what I was called throughout my school days ;)) Anyway, we had him tested over the Christmas break and his scores came back in the gifted range with potential 2E issues. We never sent him back to the school and started homeschooling the next week. It was the best decision we’ve ever made.
I am considering home schooling, but I am not sure if I have the intelligence or the understanding to handle all those intense gifted traits. HELP!
But the school won’t even recognize those intense gifted traits. You will always have to be his number one advocate, whether you continue in a traditional school setting or decide to homeschool.
I must admit the first few months of homeschooling were definitely a challenge for us and I felt like I had no idea what I was doing. This is okay! There are so many resources and curriculums out there and with some time you will figure out what works with your child.
You may want to take a look at the Gifted Homeschooler’s Forum
http://giftedhomeschoolers.org/ and Hoagies’ Gifted
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/ if you haven’t stumbled onto them already.
