However, I'd like to ask those who have responded: what are your thoughts about PG middle schoolers taking community college classes instead of honors High School classes? If you can only advocate for one option, which would be best? I hear you speaking about some high school classes not really having more content--but the output level is huge. Would college courses offer the content as well as a "grouped" environment. Would "Marine Biology" at a college level actually be a class that a PG 12 year old would benefit from?
Take this with a grain of salt b/c my oldest dd (12 -- 13 in the fall) is just starting high school in the fall so I don't have experience with high school courses. She is HG, but not PG (would have just barely made the DYS cut on the ACT for a 7th grader this past year, for instance, but she was an 8th grader). It's funny that you mention marine biology, though, b/c that's my dd12's passion! I do very much think that she could pull off college science and language arts courses and do very well in them. She could not do math courses and probably some other courses at a college level yet.
If I was looking @ primarily homeschooling her through high school, I'd probably be more inclined to have her supplemental courses be through a community college rather than a high school. I'm saying that b/c high school AP classes purport to be at a college level and I think that the college courses and students would be a better fit for the depth a HG (or, in your instance, PG) teen would want/need.
And, not in response to your post, but I just noticed this older one...
The 2011 2nd edition of the book (no link, I'm referring to my copy) has slightly stricter criteria:
A: 1-9, 1-12, 1-14, 1-16
B: 9-12, 12-15, 14-17, 16-19
C: 12-25, 15-25, 17-25, 19-25
My dd10 still hits the C criteria for math even with those stricter guidelines and I still don't think she needs more than single subject acceleration in math. If she were at the high end of the C criteria, not already young for grade, someone who fit the mold of a school system better, etc. maybe I'd feel differently, though.
I guess that we're going with having her do 7th grade math in 6th grade and seeing how she does and whether she moves fast as she moves into higher level math. We can adjust from there. Maybe she'll need more; maybe she'll need less.
