Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy Allow DS to move forward or try to hold him back?

That is a good question and the answer may well change with implementation of common core. Thankfully, more than half the student body takes Algebra before high school and the district has routinely provided high school credit. In addition, there is the state proficiency test for Algebra so it would look foolish indeed for any insistence on repeating the course.