First, I should say that I am new here. I have been looking around for a few weeks. Now I am hoping for some information.

DS7 is in 1st grade. We have advocated for him since he started K last year and have been pretty successful in geting various accomodations. Last year they advanced him to 1st grade reading. This year he started the year going to a 3rd grade reading class. He is also advanced in math. His fall MAP scores were 217 for Math and 206 for Reading.

At his PT Conference in November, the principal also attended and made some suggestions on what they could do for him in math, etc.. #1 was adjustments in his 1st grade class with computer based curriculum, #2 was sending him to a 2nd grade class for math and #3 was a whole grade skip. We chose number 2 for now so he goes to 2nd grade for math (but it is still below his level). We also discussed possibly the full grade skip at the end of this semester (or year). The principal also requested that she be allowed to go ahead and do the cognitive/academic tests now which we agreed to. We met a few weeks ago about the tests - they did the WJ for both cognitive and achievement and his general results were 140 for cognitive and 148 for achievement. They also did the Iowa Acceleration and he is an excellent candidate for a whole grade skip.

After all of this, my DH and I have gotten fairly comfortable with a full grade skip for DS. Our DS is old for his grade, extremely outgoing and makes friends easily for the most part, although I notice that he has interests different than most of his same age peers (i.e. he was Huck Finn for Halloween last year and a classmate accused him of making the character up). He has been in classes with older kids since he started school and everyone seems to know him at school.

Anyway, I post all of this because my DS is adamant that he does not want a whole grade skip. The problem is that he does not articulate why. He just says he wants to stay in his grade. He is only in his same grade classroom for 2 hours of the day and he seems to like going to different classes.

So I am wondering if anyone else has had this situation and what you all think about his reaction?