Yes DS is 6 and needs to be accelerated into 2nd at least. He has a summer birthday but the school says maybe he is too young to go all the way into 2nd even though there is overwhelming evidence he needs at least 1 year grade skip. Yet they are concerned about the "driving factor". *sigh* Also the math teacher assured me that he will definitely be challenged in the 2nd grade accelerated math. He is currently doing 3-4th grade math at home. Ugh!