Grade Skip

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My child is a 1st grader. He is working 3+ years ahead in Math, and more than a year ahead in Reading. The school is recommending a grade skip for him. We are torn on the decision, as he is already a very young 1st grader. Skipping him to 2nd grade would widen the age gap even more. We would like to get firsthand information about the long term ramifications of a grade skip from someone who has experienced it with their child. We are having difficulty getting this information, however, as the school has informed us that this hasn’t been done in the past 8 years under the current administration. Does anyone have experience with a situation like this?

My kid skipped two years in elementary school and entered high school at age twelve and went to college at sixteen and graduated one year early from college at nineteen. Adjusted well and didn't have issues.

I had a similar trajectory, but I’m not sure I’d allow it for my own kids. I mean, nothing catastrophic exactly happened but in my case i did not have friends until my mid-late 20s.

[Anonymous]

I skipped first grade. The only times in my life it was an issue was being the very last person in my class to get my driver’s license and then going off to college at 17 and still needing to get my parents’ signatures on certain documents because I was not an adult yet. Otherwise, no biggie.

[Anonymous]

I taught in FCPS for eight years. Never heard of a kid being skipped. Ever. The teachers must be able to see the difference between his talent and the typical prepped kid.

There was a kid who skipped two grades at my school ( in childhood), but had to be held back a few months later for social reasons. I would want to really dig into how he’s doing socially in that math class. It’s so hard that this is happening during DL/ COVID. Normally, I would ask the guidance counselor to observe during math ( preferably on a day with group work), and maybe ask the teacher have kids choose partners. Does anyone choose him? Academically, it’s clearly warranted to skip, it’s just difficult to do the due diligence at this particular moment in history.

[Anonymous]

I don't know that your kid is as stratospherically gifted, but you may want to take a look at Leta Hollingworth's "Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development". Hollingworth was one of the primary developers of gifted education in New York City in the early nineteen hundreds. The book starts with a review of the profoundly gifted over time, and then moves into case studies of students with whom Mrs. Hollingworth had interacted with directly. Nearly all of these children skipped grades, sometimes many of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know that your kid is as stratospherically gifted, but you may want to take a look at Leta Hollingworth's "Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development". Hollingworth was one of the primary developers of gifted education in New York City in the early nineteen hundreds. The book starts with a review of the profoundly gifted over time, and then moves into case studies of students with whom Mrs. Hollingworth had interacted with directly. Nearly all of these children skipped grades, sometimes many of them.

Hit submit too fast. Anyway, the book is out of copyright and available on Project Gutenberg.

[Anonymous]

A friend's kid skipped when changing schools between states. Tested into a higher grade. Later on, he had to be held back a grade in middle school. That broke him. We develop at different speeds, I don't think early elementary school years is indicative of how a person will mature. If they have the chops they would be able to do really well in high school and accelerate their college and graduate work.