He is developing horrible "coasting" habits. But at least he has a hope of social connections at this level. Each year he moves up a grade, we are sure that he should not have been in that grade any sooner than he is.
We struggle with this question: He has no social IQ but is smart. Are we going to get him to adulthood as someone with no social IQ and no academic work ethic? You would think a grade skip is a good choice, but when you have a kid who shuts down when life is too much, you tread very carefully. So we choose no skip.
I think these decisions are on a case by case basis, and that administrators should be flexible.
Thanks. That was informative.
It's a tough decision either way, made worse by inflexibility on the part of schools, which is driven in part by perpetuation of myths like the one in Motherlode.
