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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP who knows a bunch of people who skipped 3+ grades.

I skipped 3 grades myself. I was tested PG, both WISC and SB (~170 IQ). That background might mean that I've ended up meeting more people who have been radically accelerated, or perhaps more people who were once accelerated end up talking about it in my presence. (Otherwise you'd never really be able to tell in an adult.)

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My experience is that most radical acceleration is either three grades, or something totally off-the-charts, like going to college at age 11. There doesn't seem to be much in-between.

Kids who are accelerated by 3+ grades generally have individual IQ testing done as part of the justification for that acceleration. I don't think a grade skip that large is likely to be done for kids who have less than a 160 IQ. If you're at 145, you can probably do all right with sufficiently challenging curriculum in your grade or maybe one grade up (I have a sibling with a high 140s IQ, did great with a single grade of acceleration).[/quote]
PP from overseas. Extremely interesting. We were just offered to accelerate DS by one additional year. We are still debating and may defer until next year as we would like DS to settle a bit on the social emotional side. The main challenge we are facing is really the asynchronous development and we try to adjust accordingly based on what we see in DS's development. As you rightly point out, it really does matter at this age as it hurts to feel so different (not to mention teenage years). Did you skip one grade at a time or two/ three at once?   [/quote]

PP, this is OP.  I skipped three grades at once. I know it’s different for every child, but I am not a big proponent of skipping. I suspect when you skip also matters.  I finished 4th and skipped into 8th. That’s during a critical developmental period, i.e. the onset of adolescence for most kids. Being out of sync with your peers emotionally during that period can be hellish.

I think one year at a time over a few years would probably have been better for me. I think it’s great that you are valuing your chuld’s emotional development. I think talking to him and getting his sense is important, too. [/quote]

Who let you skip from 4th to 8th grade?! Any school administrator would have to be a moron to let a kid do that.[/quote]

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