Wow, thanx for so many responses!
Delbows asks:
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Would you only skip DD, if Ghost were advanced at the same time?
That is a big part of my problem . You have to understand, that while my daughter is in the top 3-5% on her abilities , my son is in the top 1/2% or higher. He is the one for whom grade skipping seems just obvious, however we have not done it so far. For the first five years of formal education he was stuck in a private school that did absolutely nothink for us in terms of advocationg.We were offered it when Ghost first started current school in 5th grade, but he was accomodated so wonderfully compared to what we were used to, that we did not even think about it.
Dottie writes:
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When I was on a parent committee for gifted improvement (well, I'm still on the committee, but we've all lost our rose colored glasses! )....we talked about possibly lining up all of our math classes to allow that option from year to year. Well, not all the math classes, but at least one matched set from year to year (ie, 5th and 6th same time, 6th and 7th same time, etc). It seemed VERY reasonable at the time, but nothing ever came of it
That is exactly what this school was doing when Ghost first started there 2 years ago. 5/6 and 7/8 had math and LA in the same block of time. So he was albe to do Algebra 1 and for LA was in the top scoring class of all 5/6 graders. However, for the next year the school changed a little, they decided that it was not so god for the kids to be mixed up that much and while he still continued into Geometry, in LA he was in the highest class of only 6th graders.But because those kids were grouped together for one subject, they continued together inot almost every other class. It was a strong group. This year seems to be even worst, as both son and I do not believe they grouped them according to ability at all.
So, had I known that things are going to change in the school, I would have agreed for a grade skip for Ghost from 5th to 6th, while he was still very agreeable.