If the average peak annual earnings of bright people are $100K, and if years skipped mean more years worked, then each year skipped is worth $100K. I wonder why people rarely consider this. $100K is a lot of money.
Purely from an economic perspective, having your child enter post-secondary 3 to 5 years earlier than agemates
also allows for a cost-savings on higher education, too. I'm sure that must seem incredibly gauche to parents who don't yet have kids in college, but there is pretty much no WAY to not think about the cost, frankly. It's eye-watering and it climbs by 4-8% annually.
At the rate of tuition increases at most institutions these days, that could easily mean that a fifth year can be paid for out of the savings, or at least partially so.
Compressing primary made school
tolerable for our daughter. It did come with some trade-offs, certainly. Particularly in high school, there is an expectation of huge amounts of TIME devoted to study and busy-work (my description)-- that time is not appropriate for students as youngish adolescents anyway, in my own opinion, but even less so for children who are younger.
Screen time is also a consideration-- additional computer time is not insignificant in secondary and beyond. There are physiological considerations about that. We've needed to really watch our DD's ergonomics, I'll say that.
