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.
I am very global. Academically, there was never any problem; I was at the top of my new class in a few days creating resentments from the previous top of the class kids whom I displaced. The problem was that I left the class in which I had already established friendships and was something of a leader and was put in a class that shunned me. I think this is more likely to happen in small schools/small towns. But girls I think can be especially sensitive to disruption of the social order.
My first grade teacher initiated the skip because she "didn't have anything to teach" me. It wasn't my family's idea. Because the school recommended it, my family and I went along with it.
