Question to all. Did your early elementary kids actually know of the concept of grade skipping and asked for it. Or is this a question you posed to them before you approached the school?
We early entered, so no for the first skip, though there was awareness of the concept, because we had explained that both parents entered first grade at about that age (one by being days before the cutoff, the other by being days after the cutoff and early entered). The school initiated the second skip, after third grade. Actually without our awareness, until the first day of school, when papers came home labeled with the unexpected grade on them. In the second case, we did have discussions with school administrators prior to the skip, that included both parents and child, and all of the available assessment data (report cards, group achievement, and OLSATs) regarding acceleration needs. So there was some awareness about the need for individual planning, and there was child input on SSA, but not on grade-skipping. OTOH, this particular child is not the sort to bat an eyelash at change, and sometimes doesn't seem to notice it at all.
ETA: Oh, and many members of the extended family, in the gparental, parental, and cousin generations have grade-skipped, several far more radically, so this wasn't a strange concept in general.
