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Dd12 was in private Montessori from age 3-spring of 5th grade. Moved to large, competitive public school district. Finished 5th grade at elementary, then skipped 6th and started first year in middle school as 7th grader in advanced content classes.

She had a few bumps with a few bad test grades along the way, but has had all As so far on her report card, and in the 2nd quarter the lowest grade was 95% in math. She has made one close friend at school and seems happy overall, and we feel very positive about the skip.

Just wanted to share, for anyone on the fence. Before we went through the process I was not convinced dd was a good candidate for skipping, but clearly it was the right choice for her.

Lovely, Deacongirl. Glad you and DD made the leap!

DeeDee

My dd is in 2nd grade and the school is suggesting a full grade acceleration for her. They feel she will need to skip at some point and feel sooner is better than later. This seems like a really young age to do an acceleration. She is
already on the young side for her grade because she has a March birthday. Not sure if we should even consider it at this point?

Love a happy story!

We are a k-5 school so what you said about getting comfortable with the new group before middle school makes a lot of sense. I believe the only testing that was done was the Woodcock Johnson achievement. She scored very superior (150's) in the reading and math and was shown to be 3 sometimes 4 grades ahead(more so in reading) of where she she should be. She is aware of the situation and would very much like to go to 3rd. She has friends in that grade, one of whom is her best friend. I do worry that it will be hard if she goes from being the highest in her grade to more average among her peers. Seems like it could be a blow to her self esteem and confidence.

Kcab-I did not know of the 10% guideline but the GT teacher did say she would do quarterly meet with classroom teacher to make sure she is getting similar grades as before the skip, which of course is all A's. I am very new on here and have not figured out how to start a thread. Clearly my dd gets her intelligence from dad. Lol