That sounds very good, but I think she will be advocating against a grade skip tomorrow. And I think she's likely to win on that, honestly. It sounds like they may never grade-skip in my area. During third grade, they begin to split the children into slow/normal/advanced groups for reading, etc., but that sounds like the extent of the normal acceleration. Besides, she's going to mount some arguments about him needing to learn to fit into a structured day, that no matter what grade he's in he will need subject acceleration (so a grade skip won't solve anything), etc.

Re: phonics, I forgot to mention that she ventured ideas for teaching him word roots, prefixes, and suffixes (which I was already doing, and glad to hear), and even etymology (in which he has already shown an interest). She said she has a book on Greek and Roman word roots written for children; I'm mighty interested to see that book.

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