Accelerating was probably the highlight of my K-12 education. For me, a good mix of academics and social fit was to be accelerated 3 years. Though the academics still needed to be supplanted through college courses or independent studies, I found a group of kids who shared my interests and could attend classes that were interesting enough to assuage the boredom and creative solutions to said boredom. Was it weird that I was 15 and in class with kids who were 18? Maybe for the first week or two post-acceleration. My classmates were good about giving me rides and respecting my curfew, and I even ended up being pretty popular with them. It can work, especially if accelerating once has worked.
