Fundamentally, the reason not to grade skip is going to be "a better alternative was available", isn't it? My DS is not grade-skipped, although it was discussed and I'm sure if we'd been keen it would have happened. In the early years, the main reason for thinking it was best not to have him skip was his asynchrony. For handwriting and other fine motor skills limited stuff, he was well-placed with age-peers; and for maths and science, he was still going to need special treatment whatever class he was in, and the school was able to provide it. Socially, and probably organisationally, I think he'd have been fine either way.
At that time, it didn't seem like a difficult decision, really. Now, though, I am sort of seeing what the advantages would have been; now that his handwriting has caught up, he no longer has any academic areas of weakness, and there'd be something to be said for his being with older children where he wouldn't stand out so much. But now, of course, he has a long-established place in the social network, and moving him up would be much harder. (Positively, this place is working for him: he is accepted by his peers, and the only problems he's had, which have been minor, have been with older children who have "heard of" him and want him to perform.) Given that the school is still proving exceptionally (I think) good at challenging him where he is in each subject, I think we made the right call.
Last edited by ColinsMum; 02/06/13 06:06 AM.
