Do you think their push to accelerate her is for scheduling convenience?
No, not at all. They were willing to juggle my son's schedule for 2 years.
I just got off the phone with a mom of my dd friend. Both DD and her friend got 100% on LA portion of end of level test. In addition, friend got 100% on math as well. My daughter did not get 100% as she has made one mistake. Over the summer friend's mom has met wit the principle x 2 to discuss grade skip. The prinicipal did not agree to grade skip, citing friend's imaturity as the main reason (the girl is tall, looks like at least 6th grader, but is really clingy to her friends and has some difficulties sharing them)but she did accomodate her by placing her in 6th grade for LA and Math. And there is a promise of placing her in 7th grade for LA/math next year. Here though is my problem - I would not be so sure about it. The school seems to be changing it's format from year to year. Look at my previous post and see, that my son was much better accomodated in 5th grade than he is now. I realy see now that you HAVE to take it year by year :=)
If Ghost is getting into a groove socially, perhaps consolidating high school would be a better strategy. Here, there are plans for finishing HS in 3 yrs vs. 4.
There is a little problem here as we are seriously considering Ib program for him.And IB program is inflexile, he will have to be in it for the entire 4 years (9-10 is pre-IB, 11-12 is IB diploma).
One other thing. That mom I just spoke to has told me, that there were only a handful of kids who scored "above grade level" at that end of level 4th grade test. The rest was either "at level" or "below". This is quite interesting piece of information.
