[cdnsteve]

The challenge with the public school system is that your learning at the group pace, which means if you are smart and a fast learner, you're going to be very bored. My youngest is 8 and learning 0 to 3 times tables right now. My oldest is 11 in grade 6 and just doing his 3 times tables...

The speed of the class for my grade 6 is not keeping pace and they are doing stuff my son in grade 3 is doing.

My youngest did a 0 to 3 times table quiz up to 12 and got them all correct.

What do you do? If I let my kids go on something like KhanAcademy they will be 10x ahead of the class and probably make it unbearable to be in class.

I find public school extremely slow paced, nearly every day the kids tell them they didn't learn anything. They are constantly getting substitute teachers.

Private school is cost prohibitive but I think there's potential for a hybrid with something like KhanAcademy that could work.

[phobosanomaly]

Have you tried sitting him down in front of Khan Academy on the evenings and weekends? Does he stick with it for weeks and months at a time with little supervision?

Maybe try that and see how far he can go before he gets bored or starts losing interest. If he genuinely blows the doors off of everyone and spends his nights and weekends doing math and he's good in the other subjects, the school would probably be fine with just bumping him up a grade.

Or, if he finishes everything way before the other kids, just start sending him to school with problems out of Morris Kline's Calc book or something, and he can work on them while the other kids are catching up.

It's possible he'll slow down, maintain his pace as he progresses through school, or he'll figure out that he has a burning passion for theater or oil painting or the 300-meter-dash or something.