In some ways the mid year skip can help ease the high maintenance mom talk. They don't have all summer to talk about your child. And your strategy can be that the need to do something for your child was so great that the school had to do something drastic. DD's grade skip has greatly reduced the "my kid is gifted too politics" that used to suck us in. Now she is just the youngest kid who is uber smart, rather than an intellectual threat to the other students.

Warning: sleep deprived