My son has scores just like this. Why bother trying to grade skip? ..... He's bored but not catatonic.
Some kids just don't have the energy to be bored in school all day and then be 'stimulated' afterschool. I'm glad your kids does, and hope that continues.
So much of success in life is how happy you are and how well you interact with others, esp. for a job.
I agree that happiness is very important, but staying with agemates isn't the way to happiness for many gifted kids. Homeschooling is the way for some, skips and subject accelerations are the ways for others. So much depends on the kid's personality and the family circumstances.
So many kids who grade-skip long-term have some social issues.
What gave you this idea? I wanna move to where you live and there are lots of gradeskipped kids to compare to. Lots of people who need grade skips have social issues, partially because we live in a world where so many people think that they have all the answers. Partially because for some kids the agemates just don't have enough common ground to practice social skills on. Partially because of the OverExcitabilities that come along with high IQ for some kids. Partially because the kids who get single gradeskips need so much more than that. Partially because once a kid is gradeskipped we tend to think that every negative thing that ever happens to them is related to the skip. More likely the hard things are related to the unusally high IQ or asynchronous development, or some 2e type issues, or just that into every life 'a little rain must fall.'
] I always wonder, wouldn't you have been better off being the smartest (and most well-adjusted) kid in your class, rather than being bright, not the smartest, and socially a misfit when you grade skip.
What is so great about being the smartest kid in the class? I'd much rather my child be in a classroom where everyone has to work hard and everyone has learning success. I'd like my kid to define himself in some other way than 'the smartest.' What about the kids who can skip and still are the smartest kid in the class? What about college when the kid who has always been the smartest is suddenly having to rely on her work ethic - opps sorry - your child didn't get any experience that required work ethic?
Lots of 2E kids just naturally develop work ethic merely to survive, but that is an advantage they have over many HG and PG kids. I don't actually care what size my shoe is, as long as if fits my foot. I also don't care what the grade number on the door outside the classroom is, as long as my kid has an opportunity to learn inside that classroom. Would I prefer a all day long gifted classroom where my son would learn all day long with kids his own age and readiness level and teachers who understood how ADD and PG affect a kid? Yes that would be my first choice over a grade skip.
I hope that helps,
Grinity
