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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think your DD is fine as a humanities candidate, OP. But I will answer your question. If a precocious, talented student takes 9th grade English, they still get to read great literature with as much depth as they would like. I'm not sure moving to 10th grade English is going to make that much of a difference, except that the rest of the class is more mature. On the other hand, it is very painful for a kid who is ready for much higher math to suffer through Algebra 1 if they find the material extremely easy. [/quote]
For a handful of geniuses, perhaps. But most kids who are accelerated in math would do best with maybe one year of acceleration and an honors track. For most kids, the pain of Algebra I isn’t that they’re truly ready for precalc, it’s that the class keeps having to stop to review fractions. And the students who are fluent readers with large vocabularies suffer the same kind of pain in unleveled English classes where the class has to keep working out the literal, surface meaning of the words on the page instead of discussing the plot or themes or purpose the text. [/quote]

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