Would those of you who said that you keep your children in their age-grade go ahead and bump him to 2nd? Or, would you still keep him in 1st for purposes of things like EXPLORE? If we advance him, he would be a very young 2nd grader.
When looking at talent search testing there are pluses and minuses to having him officially skipped. If you list him as a 4th grader when he would, by age, be a 3rd grader he may be less likely to make the awards ceremonies if that matters to you. The plus would be that, if you intend to have him do any of the summer programs, he might be able to do some of the programs for the older kids sooner if he is officially in a higher grade. However, some of the summer programs require both completion of a certain grade and being a certain age.
Given that he wouldn't be wildly younger for grade with one grade skip, I don't think that would be a big roadblock for him. It applies a lot more to kids who are skipping multiple grades or who are already really young for grade and then skip one grade (sometimes they are in the appropriate grade to apply for a certain summer program but not old enough by the requirements).
