If you are going to grade skip in elementary than you should keep it in the back of your mind that you may very well be looking at early college entrance.
Good point.
I'm just talking about following the natural progression once grade skipping has begun.
Doing this comes naturally for some people, but that doesn't mean that going to college three months after graduating from high school is an archetype. I went straight to college; my husband didn't. I took two years off after an A.B. and then went for higher degrees. These steps were his natural and my natural. There is no single "natural progression."
Most of the kids I know that have skipped grades did so because they were not able or willing to abide by the slowness/lack of learning/inability to learn at learn at their own pace and level/etc. That attitude doesn't change just because they finish high school level.
My kids skipped grades because they had already learned what was on offer in, say, kindergarten or third grade. But that doesn't mean that they can't get engaged in non-academic things. All of us in my family can get very intense about things outside an academic or cognitive-based environment. We don't feel a "lack of learning" in these situations. Obviously, others are different.
As an example of contrast, many of the kids described here thrive on summer schools and/or summer academics. Someone in my family was this way as a kid, and it was great. My kids prefer day camps that involve lots of running around, trips to the pool, and arts & crafts in the summer. Ditto for sleepaway camp for the eldest. No one gets bored or in trouble. It's just how we all are.
