Originally Posted by aeh
When I was a child, my mother targeted 50th %ile of the following grade for whole grade skips. E.g., 50th %ile of 4th grade to skip into 3rd. She did have to do a considerable amount of advocacy-bordering-on-polite-harassment to accomplish them.

Using this technique (assuming she used standardized test scores), my son should have skipped from 1st to 3rd, then from 3rd to 5th, then from 5th to 8th, then from 8th to 12th. So he would have been age 7 in 3rd grade, age 8 in 5th, age 9 in 8th, and age 10 in 12th. Yikes!