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    Originally Posted by apm221
    I'm hesitant to move him to second grade because of his social difficulties. Has anyone else encountered this?

    Yes! My personal recommendation is to homeschool through this time of asynchronous skills (maturity/academics) OR look at school as social time and do challenge school on the weekends. OR, beg the school to do a single-subject skip. Then, when things start to sync -- and they do most of the time -- you can work on a grade skip.

    I think sometimes kids who are out of sync, will even out--maybe by 9 or 10. At that point, the grade skip is easy. But putting a kid who is delayed in one area into a skip can cause MORE social problems.

    Hope this helps.

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    I really appreciate all of this feedback and wanted to provide an update. His current school asked if they could move him to a second grade classroom and so far he likes it very much. He is actually doing better socially and is being much more talkative. I expressed my concerns about his social immaturity, but I think we will just have to leave open the option of moving him back later.

    We are still considering the other school, which is extremely nice (it is small and flexible). My concern is that he may need more than a small school can offer if he needs therapies or special education services (his speech therapist actually does therapy at the private school, which would be wonderful, but they don't have anyone there full time).

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