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Most people do. (consider acceleration as a last resort)

On the other hand, if everyone else who is familiar with your child is saying this to you-- (suggesting acceleration)

I'd consider that is a likely set of signals I should probably heed.

As Val notes, it's not that our accelerated children have a rushed or even foreshortened childhood-- so much as that they have a qualitatively DIFFERENT one from 99% of other peers (both agemates and intellectual peers who may be older).

Don't write off options based on your assumptions about what those options would translate into down the road, that's all. smile
Well said. smile