Popular, well liked by teachers & other students, and academically successful did not change post skip. There was the bit of "celebrity" thing happening in that grade skips aren't common, but there was also the benefit of MG+ kids who were, on avg, 18 months or so older (dd's bd made her very young for grade pre-skip), some of whom were reasonable peers academically so she no longer had the aspect of standing out as the best in virtually everything. There are still areas where dd is still a real standout but in her weakest area, she now looks like a MG typical kid albeit that isn't the case so much as that she's been accelerated as much as she needs to be in that area and doesn't need more acceleration there.
Yes-- same story here. DD13's writing skills place her as a "very competent MG 11th grader," when compared with her typical age (16+17yo) academic peers in that setting.
One caution is that this
can lead the child to assume that this is a TRUE 'weakness' or area of struggle, since they don't have an accurate frame of reference.
In regard to the note that HG & PG kids need more than 1 yr of acceleration barring a 2e issue, maybe but maybe not and I wouldn't worry about that yet when crossing the first skip bridge. My dd is HG but not PG and we've gotten by with the combo of one grade skip, the bd that put her in as young for grade, subject acceleration post-skip, AP & honors courses, and choicing her to a very large high school (around 2,000 kids) so the odds of there being other gifted kids was better, and selecting a school that is very high performing with significantly higher expectations than our assigned school.
I think that this is true even at higher LOG-- it just happens with more than a single skip. It's the same strategy that we've gone with. Believe it or not, most of the time, after the FIRST skip goes well, the school becomes more willing to consider doing it again if it seems necessary.
