You might also want to consider additional visiting/shadowing time in the 2nd grade classroom so he can meet the teacher, sample the work they are doing, etc. Once he sees the work is at his level and is interesting, he may convince himself of what parents and the school already know: that it is a good fit.
Single subject acceleration was a kind of "shadowing" for our child. She became used to hanging out with the older kids during those classes so when the full grade skip occurred it wasn't such a shock. DD was fine with a grade skip (4th grade) at that point.
Has your school used the Iowa Acceleration Scale (IAS)?
As with many others, it certainly helped our family look at all facets of the proposed acceleration.
acceleration is not a panacea, for many children, it provides the least-worst educational fit.
Agreed. I have to echo what others state. It helped a bit, although we found it still wasn't enough. We are hoping next year's AP classes challenge DD. Both daughters were pulled out for gifted group work in middle school and elementary which was gifted "lite", more social than in depth work.
