'Neato,

It does make sense to me. Kids are more than numbers and formulas.

I think you trust your gut if there's no clear reason not to...and even if there *is* clear reason not to, I'd tend to trust mom's gut! I'd just check it twice to be sure I wasn't missing something.

The problem then becomes selling the skip to the school when it doesn't seem to be the obvious choice.

Kriston