I agree with Kai. If anything, this is a reason why we enrolled DD in a public (albeit 'virtual') charter school at that point (3rd)-- we were seeing a gap that was actually widening into fairly frightening proportions, given that her
maturity was still just about keeping pace with her age-mates. We enrolled her to slow her down some. True story.
So she was a wayyyyyyy-wayyyyy beyond material 3rd grader who was afterschooled/enriched, a still-well-beyond 4th grader who also completed 5th that year without really even challenging herself (oh, plus enrichment), and a GT 6th grader who found (only) math a bit if a challenge because we had skipped her forward into pre-algebra... etc. etc. It really hasn't been until this year that I see anything like actual "appropriate" curriculum, and she's 13 and taking 2 AP courses, one of them Physics.
No
way would she have "evened out" with her now 7th and 8th grade agemates, because we couldn't seem to keep her from
reading and learning more on her own. It does limit her TIME to do that kind of thing if we have her enrolled in a school situation that demands busy-work from her at least part of the day, though, so it attenuates rate. On the other hand, I do believe that she'd have been several teachers' worst nightmares in a bricks-and-mortar setting with agemates.
