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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why push the child ahead? If a child is lucky enough that academics in school are easy for her, so much the better. Of my three school-age or older kids, two are quite academically advanced and are/were quite happy to be in their chronologically-expected grade in the top group or leveled class with little effort.

All that meant is that they had mental energy and time left to pursue various other interests more fully.

My oldest (now a young adult & recent college graduate) could easily have been advanced one or more years and out of curiosity I just asked her if she would have preferred that. Her perspective was that pushing her to work harder sooner just because she could would have ended up (once she understood what we did and that there were other options) feeling like almost a way of making being smart a negative/punished thing instead of it just being a lucky benefit that she got the top education possible in our public school but never felt as overly pressured as many of her friends did.[/quote]

And, I asked my child and he's much happier being "ahead"[/quote]

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