thanks everyone for all the very thoughtful responses!
I am very much at the beginning of this process, if I go through with it at all.
Dottie, I kwym, and it's very much on my mind -- he's no pg kid who absolutely needs a skip, hands down. And there are lots of bright kids all around, a good school system, etc.
We haven't had any new testing lately, but his work in the algebra course, and finding almost nothing to do language arts-wise, besides read, has been whirring around in my brain this last couple of months...5th grade has seemed like a repeat of 3 and 4th for him, and I am not sure it is fair to do another 'repeat' kind of grade!
Grinity, thanks for reminding me about end-of-year tests, that is something I will keep in mind to mention (when I get to that bend in the road)
Thinking about the curriculum more, I was wondering how kids/schools deal with a subject like history where there isn't likely to be so much repetition..?
Yes, I need to delve more into what he is thinking about the bullying; generally there doesn't seem to be much if any at the school he is at, so that might be a good sign for the middle school, but I guess things change a lot with the 13 year olds. It would be 6/7/8 for middle and 9/10/11/12 for high school.
Last edited by chris1234; 01/05/11 12:54 PM.
