Trinity,
If DS was willing to show the school what he does at home in his schoolwork, they would advance him as far as need be up to college level work. However, Ds does one thing at home and another at school so he is currently only advanced about 6-12 months in curiculm. The school's policy is that DS can be advanced as quickly as he wishes as long as he accurately completes all of the work in each section. DS is not willing to do "more" work a day to get through the books faster even though he understands that he will like the later work better.
Because of our work schedules, Ds is at his school for before and after care from 7:30 Am to 5:00 PM. Several nights a week, we go to the gym after picking him up. They have a wonderful kid's court area with lots of different activities including ball pits, jungle gym mazes and lots of open floor with baasketball hoops and wiggle cars. There are usally several children within in a couple yeras of him there at the same time. Since the membership is always changing , he doesn't get to make close friends but always has fun playing with whoever is there.
I want to apply to the Davidson Institute, but will have to get DS retested. I'm in the process of trying to find a good evaluation center with experience in testing gifted underachievors. DS does not like anyone to know how "smart" he is. He also gets bored quickly with the testing process and starts trying to come up with inventive answers. Previously, when he was tested, we were told that his scores were at least 20 lower than they should be because of his test taking attitude.
Ah well, Now they want to put him on Drugs for ADHD...
