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As always, it depends on the kid.
DS11 went the summer after 3rd grade, as one of the younger ones of his agegroup, and was out of his mind with happiness.
He went the summer after 4th grade, and thought it was 'fine' but was quite dissapointed.
That was the end of that.
What changed?
Staff
being on different ends of the age group
his experience with any kind of enrichment activity - Almost Zero before the first summer, to real life friendships with other PG kids, plus lots and lots of saturday enrichment and get-togethers.
I will say that although the second summer was a dissapointment to him, I was delighted with two very important things -
1) He used a laptop for all the courses for the first time and really started to understand what a difference it made for him.
2) I signed him up for a writing class, over dire protests, and his written product finally gelled. There was a good teacher and it became his favorite class.
Those two things set the stage for his gradeskip, and his acceptance to his new school. He was SO asynchronous at the begining of that summer, and almost 'not asynchrounous' by the end.
Smiles,
Grinity
