CONGRATS!!! Your experience with your DS7 in 1st grade was almost exactly what we went through with public school gifted program. It was beyond disasterous. We moved our DS6 to a catholic school and skipped him to 2nd grade , that was the only option we had to get him to get some harder work.
I wish we could afford a school like Friends.
It is 30K a year right?
I believe paying would be the only way to get real help for our DS6. Wish we could afford it.