One pitfalls I consider is that a lot of talent searches score by grade not age.
This is probably done because the enrichment activities are also grouped by grade. This favors red shirted kids but means that skipped kids will potentially competing with kids at least 2 years older. For competitive enrichment classes one needs to be sure that skipping will not hurt their performance relative to their grade peers thereby denying them access to activities that they would have more than amply qualified for if scored by age alone - that is, just left in their 'age grade'.
For a child on the cusp of that level of acheivement/LOG I probably would not skip.
Last edited by madeinuk; 03/24/15 04:07 AM.
