Would you actually accelerate a child again then if s/he wasn't in that spot (having to work to be in the top 10%)? In my dd12's instance, even immediately after she skipped, she was still easily in the top 1-5% in all subjects except math. Math is one where she probably has had to work to be in the top 10%. At this point, it isn't a ton of work, but she doesn't get an A+ simply for showing up.
We have no plans to further accelerate, though, b/c further acceleration wouldn't be appropriate in that one subject (math) and it seemed to me that it needed to be appropriate in all subjects for grade acceleration. The unfortunate thing in middle school (and elementary, for that matter), is that math is the only subject where most schools are willing to subject accelerate. Literacy would be the one where dd has really needed more subject acceleration and has coasted her entire school career.
Am I wrong to think that high school next year will offer more challenge not just more quantity?
