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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think you are wise to research alternatives. Your child sounds a lot like mine was, except more advanced.  While I agree with the other posters that a child forced to memorize random facts is not gifted, that was not the case for my DC and I suspect it isn't the case for yours either.  For all the times I've been labeled a pushy parent, it was always my child pulling me along as I ran to keep up.

When I called the local school and said that while I realize every mother thinks their child is special, if the school decided she was advanced, what the available options would be.  They said there would be a number of activities like sponge painting letters.  I thought my child  who could and did read anything,  did multiplication (not division, she figured it out, I didn't teach her), and sought out and absorbed information like a sponge needed more.

We ended up in a public school immersion program.  It worked great at first.  My daughter, in Kindergarten,  told me she was glad that she was learning a foreign language, because otherwise she wouldn't have anything to learn.  I pointrd out they'd learned about Kwanzaa and Columbus Day, but she wasn't impressed.

By third grade, the foreign language wasn't enough.  In earlier grades there'd been lots of learning games which she enjoyed, even if she wasn't learning.  By third grade, learning got more serious and since the curriculum spiraled, it was yet another year of learning information she had known for years.  She asked her teacher for the chance to learn more and was refused.

Turns out her local school was given extra resources because of it's high FARMS rate and developed a gifted program that the immersion school didn't have.  It might have been better for her.  In fourth grade she did enter a gifted program.  The magnet programs she attended were an excellent fit.

In terms of private schools, you might want to check out Yang Academy.  While my kids never attended, I believe it is a gifted program.

http://www.yangacademy.com

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