<p>Our district was dismal and uneven with the gifted program. They would identify, but not do much with the kids. In elementary school, they had an after school program for GT for 90 minutes a week where they might have an art class or build rockets. Both our sons thought they were mostly worthless. Middle school wasn’t a whole lot better. When S14 was in 6th grade, his science teacher had him do a project of his choosing and write a report on it rather than take science class, because he was “too far ahead of the class.” This lasted for an entire 9 week period. Luckily, another boy was in the same boat, so at least he had someone to work with. The middle school did have an outstanding math teacher who was also the MathCounts coach, and both boys got a lot out of that. Both sons are out of district at an IB HS school now and they love it because they feel like they are in classes with kids who are motivated. Our state says that GT should be treated on a par with special ed, but I haven’t seen it. If you tell a teacher with 30 plus kids in their class of varying abilities to do something extra for GT kids, it might just end up being extra homework. @mom2aphysicsgeek, our sons used the artofproblemsolving.com when they were in MathCounts. It was a good resource.</p>