The principal pretty much has to articulate this as a policy to keep folks from beating down the door. Skips are not routinely offered in our district, nobody says they exist; yet there IS a policy in place that permits it, and a clear process. And it happens, more routinely than anyone knows until they're in the process.[quote]
This is useful to hear. We never considered a skip with DD because she is not a good candidate, so I've never explored it in any way. I have it on good authority that magnet siblings are looked at carefully and that at least one someone knows of was skipped within the first few weeks, based on the extensive evaluations they do at year's start.
[quote] Is it clear to you that a subject acceleration would make a difference, or is there an area where differentiation would be fairly straightforward for this particular kid?
It's worth noting that his writing is not where everything else is. It's probably 1st grade, but not high 1st grade. Frankly, I don't see that reading and math are realistically going to be accommodated. Let me be clear that *I* don't care that much if he doesn't learn a lot in these areas, because I agree with you that school is about a lot more than this, and honestly I am a realist and don't expect a kindergarten teacher to be able to teach a child working significantly above level. The problem is that HE does really seem to care, a lot. This was such a surprise, because he has always seemed to be my less driven child. Maybe there is something else going on in his current environment that is not good (I don't know what--it really seems fine) and next year will be really different.
