Does private school allow grade skipping?

[Anonymous]

My DC is profoundly talented. DC is currently in a small private ES school. DC always complains that the school is too easy. So we are switching DC to another more rigorous private school. DC is doing 2 grade level above both math and reading at home. If the new school is still too easy for DC, is it a good idea to ask for grade skipping? Does private school even reach out to parents for grade skipping like public school?

[Anonymous]

Your child will be in good company. Plenty of kids are well above grade level.

[Anonymous]

That's pretty normal for a lot of kids in this area. Its very rare to skip a grade. We did it but it was a fall birthday so child could have gone either way. Private would be more flexible than public.

[Anonymous]

Thanks! Op here, what’s the norm for skipping grade in private schools? Will private school identity the need of skipping grade or parents have to request testing? My 2nd grade DC is doing algebra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks! Op here, what’s the norm for skipping grade in private schools? Will private school identity the need of skipping grade or parents have to request testing? My 2nd grade DC is doing algebra.

Have the conversation directly with the school Social and emotional factor into things. I know if 3 kids who were doing "Algebra" and reading at a HS grade level in 2nd grade, but by the time they were in 7th grade, things had evened out -- their analytical skills weren't advanced.

[Anonymous]

OP, only one school in the region can accommodate a profoundly gifted child that young, which is Feynman. If that is the case, keep your DS there for now. No other private will grade skip to the level of need or ability; neither he nor you will be happy. If you are not at Feynman, that is where you should go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks! Op here, what’s the norm for skipping grade in private schools? Will private school identity the need of skipping grade or parents have to request testing? My 2nd grade DC is doing algebra.

But how is he socially? Does he have friends? Does he cry at some point most days?

Does he level up his own work? Mine was once assigned a book report about a biography. He wrote a song about the person also. Then he wrote the piano music for the song. Then he did the drums. Because it was fun.

[Anonymous]

Nysmith says it’s for the gifted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, only one school in the region can accommodate a profoundly gifted child that young, which is Feynman. If that is the case, keep your DS there for now. No other private will grade skip to the level of need or ability; neither he nor you will be happy. If you are not at Feynman, that is where you should go.

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Most of the private schools here take an entirely different approach during the elementary years. I personally like the approach, but it doesn't seem like you will. Go to Feynman or someplace that lets you set the pace of independent learning like BASIS or Nysmith.

[Anonymous]

Have you had the child formally tested? Two grades above in math and reading does not necessarily meet the official standard of “profoundly gifted.”

[Anonymous]

Can't you tell it's a troll post? In first post, OP says child is 2 grades ahead. In subsequent post, says child is doing algebra.

Either child is doing baskc algebra, which most 2nd graders can do, or OP is exaggerating. Real algebra is taught at 7th in most privates -- for the accelerated kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't you tell it's a troll post? In first post, OP says child is 2 grades ahead. In subsequent post, says child is doing algebra.

Either child is doing baskc algebra, which most 2nd graders can do, or OP is exaggerating. Real algebra is taught at 7th in most privates -- for the accelerated kids.

oP here. Why it’s a troll. My DC does 4th grade BA math at home. 4th grade BA math introduces algebra.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you had the child formally tested? Two grades above in math and reading does not necessarily meet the official standard of “profoundly gifted.”

I was thinking the same thing. My DCs were reading at least at around middle school level by 2nd grade (according to the school's reading specialist) and both probably could have handle grade or two above in math, but they were then (and still are) no where near profoundly gifted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you had the child formally tested? Two grades above in math and reading does not necessarily meet the official standard of “profoundly gifted.”

Is there such a thing as "official standard of 'profoundly gifted'"? I don't even think there's a single agreed-upon definition of plain old "gifted."

[Anonymous]

Op here. Sorry I didn’t mean to have a discussion on the definition of gifted or profoundly gifted. Just want to see if it’s normal to skip grades in private school for a bored learner. Please kindly provide me with any experience or advice.

And I hear you, the advance in math might eventually fade out. But I just want to keep my DC engaged in school. Any idea?