My DS is in 5th grade. He is having a lot of trouble socially, and I have lobbied to have him retested for our local gifted program, which they have agreed to do (privately he tested HG but 2e, but the district didn't even find him to be gifted).
I have him in Science Olympiad which he loves. Last week I helped him study for the test they give you to be on the team, and he had the material down cold. Yesterday I got the results. Five of the regular gifted kids (non-2e) got 100% or max 1 wrong. He got four incorrect. I expected him to be one of the kids that got 100% or maybe only one wrong. He still made the team, but I'm worried something else is wrong. He knew the material, and he reads this stuff on his own so it's not like he's not interested in it.
So of course, now I'm overthinking it- I'm worried that if I manage to get him into the public HG school that he will never do as well as the non-2e gifted kids and he will feel like a failure.. I was trying to get him retested so that he could go to a school where he would at least have some peers. He really doesn't have anything to talk about with the other kids (I am working on social skills with him, but when your latest fascination is Gingko trees the other kids in 5th tend to think you are strange..)
I keep thinking I will figure it out, and then everything will fall into place for him, but I feel like instead I keep trying to plug leaks- the faster I do it the more there are. Sorry having a bad day
