My kids are excited! Younger son is in our gifted program for sixth grade, which our school is eliminating in a year. He will be in our city-wide sixth grade orchestra for one hour a week, for viola, which will be super fun.
Older son DID get to skip Integrated Math 1 for 8th grade and go into Math 2. He is very excited. He also has Orchestra for viola and is trying out in November for the all state junior high orchestra. Hopefully he can do his Eagle project as that is all that is left for Eagle Scout.