I'm glad the decision was clear to your DS. The new mantra in our house is that my kids deserve to be taught by a teacher in a classroom of academic peers. ALEKS has not been a successfully implemented tool for my daughter.
On the skip, can he do the accelerated math immediately and then decide on the whole grade skip at the end of the year? It might highlight unexposed misery. In our house, I suspect DS is pretty miserable right now in kindergarten, and that we won't see it until after we make a change in retrospect.
