how common it is for gifted kids to skip K?
I would guess it is pretty uncommon. I don't know if our school district has ever done it before. They did tell me that have had a few kids skip 2nd grade before. DS is a PG kid and I think after meeting him they knew that K would not work for him. I didn't have to push for, I shared his testing results with them (which recommended skipping K and future grade skips as well) and told them I didn't think K would work but that I wanted them to meet him and see what they thought. They met him and spent a little time with him in a couple classes and realized it wouldn't work. He is doing most stuff above a 2nd grade level...we just looked at their curriculum map for 1st grade and he has clearly mastered all that already. But I don't want to push him ahead any further. We will be meeting in the fall to talk about subject acceleration for him. I am positive that this won't be a successful experience unless they do some subject acceleration in reading and math. He will certainly start acting out if he is sitting through them learning to read and through basic addition and subtraction. He is currently into fractions and double digit multiplication.
