The question about regular, honors, advanced level of class when accelerating...I would never accelerate into a regular class (in middle or high school) here because I have been in the classrooms here and know the ability level of the regular classes and the number of non-readers, low level readers, non-English speaking, and horrible behavior of the students (whether the behavior is a defensive mechanism for the poor academic skills or the poor behavior leads to poor academics or some combination of the two, I don't know). My point is no way would I accelerate to a regular level class here in this district....but your situation might be different. It would just not serve the purpose of the acceleration. And middle school kids can be cruel...no matter what level the class is...but I think the honors classes could be less cruel/more accepting to having an accelerated student in their midst.
Like I said ymmv.
