Middle school boredom
My gifted/ADHD son just finished 6th grade at our highly rated local public school. He hates it. He says he’s bored and he already knows everything they’re teaching. I think he’s exaggerating but he did get 99-100’s all year in honors math and ELA (no gifted offerings, no honors options for social studies or science). He did complete the middle school math curriculum before the end of fifth grade so I asked his math teacher if it would be possible for him to skip a grade in math. She thought that was a good idea so she brought it up to admin but apparently they will “run out of math curriculum” before his senior year of high school and they are legally required to be enrolled in a math class at all times.
He has a 504 plan but he didn’t want to include any of the accommodations that were actually helpful in elementary school because he doesn’t want to be singled out. He is on a stimulant.
He’s a quiet/shy kid and it takes him a long time to feel comfortable and make friends but he’s got a FANTASTIC group of buddies he’s actually comfortable with and I don’t see a way to duplicate the social aspect homeschooling.
I don’t know what to do for him. We’ve told him there are parts of life that are boring and this is a good opportunity to learn how to deal with that. I’ve looked into online college course so that he can “clep” some credits but he won’t be old enough until halfway through the year. I just don’t want him to get burnt out with school so young and I worry about his mental health. I’ve encouraged him to read when he finishes assignments early which he does usually enjoy but he has access to “educational” games on his chrome book and he mostly manipulates the games into doing ridiculous things to show his friends (creates quiz games where every answer is correct and he can accumulate a lot of points for in game rewards, creates silly canva slide sets, etc…).
Any ideas or encouragement would be very appreciated!