I admit to wrestling with this a little, but on a slightly different scale. DS5 is a great skip candidate in almost every way, except that if we skipped him to 1, next year he would go up into a full-day gifted magnet. He would still be ready for this (I know because my DD is in the magnet) except for writing, where he would be quite far down at the low end. It would surely be a struggle for him, and I really do worry that setting a 6yo male second grader up to fear or dislike writing (in an environment where kids are expected to be with the program or...well, not, especially because it is a high-expectations, opt-in program and he has no LDs) is a bad idea.
His K teacher actually even brought up skipping to us (in fact, skipping to a 1/2 multiage, which they have, was her thought) but I said I didn't think it was a good idea because of the writing. She deferred because she teaches gen ed and doesn't know the program, and also said the school principal would likely not support a skip. Now I am wondering--uh, the teacher brought up a skip in the 3rd week of school and I said no? But DS can just kinda write a somewhat legible sentence. His spelling is definitely pretty out there still. Punctuation is usually not there. My dd9 entered 2nd writing beautiful, cohesive paragraphs. She was at the high end, but so were plenty of kids.
If DS5 is writing really nicely at the end of K, then maybe....
