... a one-year skip.. best option... *under the circumstances*, but still deeply suboptimal. It was the better of two bad options. (The best, but not at all available where I lived, would have been to be grouped with a cohort of intellectual and age peers in a gifted-ed setting.)... I can't say you should always or never skip, because it really depends on the circumstances. If possible, get your child in a setting where they have intellectual peers who are also age peers.
Well said!
Research supports this:
1 -
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....icle_about_poor_school_f.html#Post229604,
2 -
http://www.casenex.com/casenet/pages/virtualLibrary/gridlock/groupmyths.html,
3 -
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.540.8046&rep=rep1&type=pdf(or do a web search on Gentry Total School Cluster Grouping TSCG),
4 -
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0034654316675417.
