I wish I had answers for you. We were in the same position. However even with a Dec birthday - all the schools we talked to including public agreed to allow our dd to skip K. Looking back, it was a heartbreaking decision. Now, it seems insane that we thought of sending her to K. I think it is a quote from the davidsons that sending a good reader to K is torture. I'm not a personal fan of montessori but if there is a k-3 program it might let your child work up to their ability.
The struggle is - to the choir here I say - is getting straight A's ok if you didn't have to work for them. Schools are so caught up in the proper socializing of our kids - it seems education ends up on the back burner. And the real problem to me isn't that she is learning the same things as other kids - but it is style. typical teaching style I believe uses repetition which bores our kids.
I don't know what to tell you. Uh, but yet I thread away - nice huh? It simply sounds like she's not in the right class. She's still young... mid-year skipping seems icky. But can you fight for this for next year or afford other options. Any charter schools - someone who understands. I always got a laugh - we'd call a school and ask do you have gifted programs and will you allow a grade skip? Many would come back with "all our students are gifted". The most expensive one in town is the one that made me laugh the most - and I wouldn't say this to my friends off here but - it was a week later when they actually looked at the fax with her WPSSI and Woodcock/Johnson and said - yes certainly she can skip (despite prior claims of how it was so wrong and how all their kids/classes were like gifted programs).
Sorry, focus. My daughter turned 6 in dec. i feel your pain.
Copy the chapter on Pushy Kids not Pushy Parents (or something to that tune) from davidson's book or a number of books. Or go mainstream and give them a copy of an august time magazine that covered gifted kids.
