Mia -your school sounds nice! I hope your DS likes it. From what I hear from others on the board with HG+ kids likes yours, you shouldn't have to worry about gaps too much. If there are any, your DS should be able to easily catch up. And unless your private gifted school is a private gifted school for HG kids, your son will probably be one of the quicker kids in his classes anyway.

As for semantics, I lifted this from the MN dept of education website: re: common forms of acceleration:

What types of acceleration are there?
Whole-grade acceleration (commonly referred to as grade-skipping) is just one of 18 forms of acceleration. Other forms of acceleration include:
-- early admission to kindergarten*
-- early admission to first grade
-- grade-skipping*
-- continuous progress
-- self-paced instruction
-- subject-matter acceleration/partial acceleration*
-- combined classes
-- curriculum compacting*
-- telescoping curriculum*
-- mentoring
-- extracurricular programs
-- correspondence courses*
-- early graduation
-- concurrent/dual enrollment*
-- advanced placement*
-- credit by examination
-- acceleration in college
-- early entrance into middle school, high school or college
* A common form of acceleration (Colangelo et al., 2004)

Last edited by st pauli girl; 09/11/08 08:46 PM.