 Re: Skipping a grade? | |
I agree w/ the other posts re: considering maturity, etc. My daughter was super advanced and bored in k and 1st grade and even now in 2nd. We tossed the idea around and decided against it. Our concerns were maturity, self-esteem, social issues when she is a pre-teen/teenager, going to college a year younger than most....even something as simple as playing sports and having the same physical development as a freshman while competing as a sophomore.
What we did decide to do (along w/ her teachers) was to give her more advanced stuff to do in school. For instance, she is doing literature circles w/ the third graders (while she is in 2nd), she will get different math assignments, and have different homework than the rest of the kids. She doesn't realize that this major difference exists, she just thinks all kids get slightly different stuff to do and that's how it is.
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