Kriston, I agree with you about the math vs. language arts acceleration. In math, there is a logical succession and it is easier to accelerate. One of the arguments again LA acceleration from our old school was that the books read may not be appropriate material as DD is very sensitive and "immature" for the material. One of them discussed holocaust for example and I agree that a sensitive child may not handle the material well. Schools usually don't have a way to accelerate a LA gifted child.

In our new school DD9 will be with other GT kids and they will accelerate to either 6th or 7th grade LA next year. She will be going to 5th this fall. Since it is a group of younger (9-10 yo) kids, they will take the subject matter into account.