How would you advocate for your child if the child is very highly gifted in either math or language arts, but only mildly/moderately gifted in the other one? Skipping a grade doesn't seem to be the answer, since the child would be far beyond the curriculum and would still lack a peer group in the next grade up in the area of strength, but would barely be "high average" in the area of weakness.
In my case, DS6 is performing at a 4th-5th grade level in math, and the school has no idea what to do with him. We're supplementing at home with a math curriculum, so he is at least learning something, but it's frustrating that we don't seem to have any options other than this. I've had to resort to telling him to treat his school math class as extra handwriting practice (which he does need), just so he still cooperates and completes his work.
