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[quote=Dottie
5. DS is global

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IMO, this is key to whole grade skipping, otherwise subject acceleration is the way to go. ACS, do you think that you would have fit in the "globally gifted" category? I'm sure there were other factors involved in your situation, but I hve seen parents push for a whole grade skip for a student who is precocious in one subject only.

In our experience, we have one child who is very high in math/science abilities, but more down to earth on everything else. He fits in very well with age-related peers. Test scores show the 99.9's in his high subjects, but more high average in others. We did whole grade skip him once, but wll not do anymore, instead we have focused on subject accleration.

The other DS is very globally gifted, even test scores reflect this. He doesn't have the peaks and valleys of his brother, just a constant evenness across the board. He doesn't fit in with age peers. Two whole gradeskips have made the situatuion livable, but not the utopia we were looking for.

If you go by Ruf's levels, I think a level 4 across the board would do better with whole gradeskips than a child with mixed Level 5 and Level 3 abilities. (very simplistic but I think you can get my meaning)