We decided against grade advancing our son to 7th this year based on a few factors. The first reason is the very high regard we hold for the teaching ability of the two sixth grade teachers. We�ve kept him at this school so that he would finally get these teachers for 6th grade. The other reason is that he hopes to attend a level 4 high school where he would be amongst peers. Had he been skipped this year, he would only be 16 at high school graduation. One of the colleges that he has expressed interest in attending, a U.S. service academy, has a mandatory age of 17 for acceptance.
These are the reasons that we turned down the offer at this time (middle school age). If we had been offered the skip earlier, we would have taken it and I�m confident the result would have been favorable.
Ania,
Would you only skip DD, if Ghost were advanced at the same time?
I am a big fan of subject acceleration. Many kids could benefit from it, although schools consider it a big pain. I would like to see our teachers utilize all those Masters of School Administration degrees to figure it out.
