The people involved in this school meeting strongly suggested that I be skipped from 2nd to 4th. I would be entering 2nd that fall. I was really small for my age and very shy. My parents decided to have me go to 2nd for social reasons.
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In retrospect I think I should have gone to 4th and then done secondary options around 14. The social part really was not an issue because I did not really relate to children my own age and found older peers anyway like my husband who was older.
I recall being in with the 4-7th graders when skipped out of 2d. I felt VERY SMALL. I recall walking into class up the center aisle with all the kids looking DOWN on me. LOL. I think I cried. The next day it became fun. Going back to age-peer classes after three accelerations was the most traumatic event of my childhood. My dad told me over Thanksgiving that I all my test scores were at HS level with reading being the highest.
