I'd love to hear from those of you who have NOT grade-skipped or accelerated, or at least can help advise me. Acceleration or grade-skips are not an option right now. And DS needs the basic academic skills, as his first grade test results show basically a twelfth grade level for comprehension, and pretty much grade level for academic skills (reading, writing, basic math). He was absolutely miserable in his last school and I can't tell you how badly we feel for keeping him there through first grade. Everyone told us we had to teach him to stick it out, that he doesn't get to decide that he doesn't like school, that we can't keep moving him, etc., etc. Over the last several weeks, I've done a lot of reading on this site and others and can't tell you how alarming it is to have read the characterisitics of profoundly gifted children and to see how well they describe DS (of course, other than the self-taught academic skills, but we were told in his evaluation that there is an explanation for that), and to realize that his interest in reading and writing pretty much stalled with the start of school (and we did nothing outside of school, because all school work was tainted by his experience in school). We've been dealing with all of this in a vaccuum, i.e., apart from the gifted part of the equation. School is better for him this year (though not ideal), but again no one in school is addressing the gifted side of the equation (and he is all too happy not to have to really work in school). He needs to have fun in school, but I'm concerned that he won't learn how to "work" if he's not at all challenged. To keep his options open, I have enrolled him in a CTY math and EPGY language arts course. We don't care how advanced he is or is not, we just want him to be happy. So, what would you do? It seems that everyone here has in-school grade-skips or acceleration in place. Thanks!
