My 5-year old daughter was tested by our school district gifted and talented program to see if she would be a candidate to skip kindergarten and go into the 1st grade. We received her results today from the program office. The program coordinator advised us that from her test scores, we had two options: 1). Skip kindergarten and accelerate her into the first grade (which she suggested we NOT do) or
2) Keep her in kindergarten, and next year enroll her into the 1st grade "gifted and talented" program that is being piloted next year. We are very torn as to what to do. The whole point was to move her into the first grade because she is doing work well above kindergarten level already, but the gifted and talented program coordinator suggests we keep her there and enroll her next year into a gifted and talented program in first grade. Please I need thoughts from parents with gifted children...
