Again, Dottie, Good luck, have a great meeting.
Thanks for all the personal viewpoints on skipping. Sharing your viewpoints and feelings on the experience is very helpful to others struggling with the decision. I know I've found it helpful.
I'm one who wished I had been skipped. I guess I actually had a self-induced skip when I refused to go to high school for a year, but still graduated on time!
DD7 is clearly mis-placed in second grade, but she is adamant that she doesn't want to go up a grade. This is based mostly on not wanting to leave her friends. The interesting thing is she admits she is very frustrated with how easy the work is, mainly she seems to have trouble with the repetiveness of the stuff she already knows.
For a second we thought we'd pursue the skip anyway, I mean, she'd probably eat Hershey bars for breakfast, lunch and dinner if we let her make all her own decisions.
However, we decided it wouldn't work out well. After reading the posts I feel better about this decision, for now.
We'll see what happens going forward.
