Thank you all for your stories and words of wisdom. Sorry I am not responding directly to each of you - cannot navigate multiple quotations in one response somehow!
Here where it gets complicated for me to make a decision. She is well rounded kid meaning she is equally advanced in language/science (with confirmed reading comprehension above 12th grade). Her lowest scores this year were in Drama class... From what I observe she is more logical and I see engineering major in her future... But once and a while she would write those eloquent poems. She doesn't have close friends (the only one she made this year is moving away). She is friendly with everyone but an outsider in terms of finding her "crowd". She doesn't do band or any other team activities (even though we offered her any opportunities in the world). The only activities she is permanently excited about is programming and, of course, anything Minecraft. She is comfortable to talk to a room full of adults and have this resilience in her to brush off any comments she finds not favorable. She likes to be the youngest "smarty pants" in the room. She is perfect candidate to skip. But she is still 10 years old and will be 11 only next year. What if this skip will rob her off one extra year of figuring out who she is. What if this would be the year to finally make close friends with kids only a year older? What if, in terms of academics, I am taking away an advantage of being the smartest/close to smartest kid in the room and therefore be ahead in competing for the spot in a good college and moving her up bringing her more to her true academic pears will be too competitive for her since this is an academic magnet where kids already selected based on achievement. So there are lots of what if's... I truly wish this full grade skip opportunity would never come up... She is now so excited I cannot envision telling her no. Maybe she finally will apply herself and get interested in learning again. I am thinking to do the trail period and undo the skip and leave only Algebra placement... But I am absolutely uneasy about it. I am sick to my stomach every time I am thinking about it :-(
Last edited by MorningStar; 06/11/16 09:17 AM.
