I continue to be amazed at the school district's concern that the older kids will be mean or bully him (we have a very strong anti-bullying program here). Has anyone had a bullying issue with a kid who was accelerated so much? Our experience this year was that the older kids really took him under their wing and were super nice to him - he was kind of a mascot. In fact, this year, the kids in his math class asked that he be included in their 5th grade yearbook! I am much more concerned about the receiving middle school teacher than I am about the kids
I wonder whether it's that they have experience of kids who are a bit young for the group and/or a bit clever being at greater than average risk of bullying, and they assume that being a lot young and/or a lot clever must be the same only more so? Whereas actually, perhaps, a child who is simply outside the normal age range for the group is not a target in the same way. We've also encountered the concern.
