I am not so impressed. First, I only saw one that went through high school.
First, I did 2 grade skips, but I did the first one (grade 4) with 8 other kids. So I had a peer group.
I think grade skips are great if you have peers. Because unless you have a nerdy kid, high school pressures can be really hard. When I go to parenting conferences and hear about "friends with benefits" in middle school I worry. A couple talk about their daughters being in the 90th percentile for height. But there is that stage where breasts blossom and I remember that stage. I had peers who skipped and it was a very different time than today, so I didn't feel conscious. But being athletic, I was pulled into a crowd that partied.
So what do you do with a DD whose birthday is end of September, so she is already almost a year younger, especially the private school kids who are more than a year older. And who is in the 25th percentile. She is small boned, though strong, since she is very athletic.
So I am very pro grade skip for the nerdy kid, not so much now that I see my kid is seriously social and athletic. I am providing with an accelerated curriculum in her gifted school but the realities of what goes on with sex and drugs I am getting afraid for my own.
I know that the path she is on, with an accelerated curriculum and the options in NYC, she could go to college early. I am thinking of going with her at this point....;)
Seriously. After hearing the stories at the parenting conference, I am really on the fence about grade skips, though I do want accelerated curriculum and hanging with peers. And let the chronological age grade skips wait high schools.
I know that isn't always the option.
