Makes perfect sense. Thanks for sharing that with me. I feel like I understand what happened in your case much better. I thought your parents were more involved in the skip than they were. I assumed teacher-initiated but parent-desired. Nope! (And I hope you didn't get the sense that I thought badly of your parents or something. I never did. You never seemed to blame them for your experience, so it was clear that they didn't "do this to you" in some way.)
I'm not sure what I would do if the school wanted a skip that I didn't advocate for! I've never imagined such a thing!
Anyway, now it all makes more sense to me. Hopefully I can learn from your experience and do better for my kids. Thank you for your story.
Truth be told, it's just the kind of thing I worry about with my kids (albeit without the unrequested grade-skip...). My children both like to please, and I worry that they might think they have to keep their unhappiness from me. I was actually kind of glad when DS6 acted out a bit in school when he was underchallenged, since it meant that he would not simply die a little inside every day without my knowing.
I'm so sorry you went through all that. And thanks for sharing it with all of us. I appreciate your input probably more than you realize..and I *adore* your willingness to keep the forum lively by debating with me from time-to-time!
