I don't mind advocacy - my older son really struggled with fitting the mold - he simply would not cooperate with busy work, so I'm somewhat used to it. But this is definitely a case where kids can be soooo different. My daughter is a pleaser - extremely sensitive. I vetoed the grade skip as she is just really emotionally young and the school has done a fair job of accommodating her thus far - last year she was in her own reading group and the teacher chose good classic literature that is difficult (Wizard of Oz, Black Beauty etc.), but not socially advanced. She was also part of a pull out math extension - so I felt in general she was challenged.
By way of background - the school did academic assessments that put her at 7th grade reading level and 4th grade math - we haven't done the whole battery of gifted testing, although we did go through it with our son. He's highly gifted and as my husband and I are both highly gifted - I figured why spend the $800 to find out she is highly gifted as well -
I'm used to a child that is very vocally unhappy in the school environment - I fear that my daughter is just making her own accommodation by disappearing into books.
