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[quote=Anonymous]Each kid is different. I let all 3 of my kids skip a grade and here is my lesson:

1) My eldest skipped her last year of high school. This was fine because she was with her friends but was taking classes a year ahead of them the entire time (we knew by 9th grade that she was going to need to finish high school early). This avoided the "friend issue". She was about 2 years academically ahead of her friends for years and was bored for years.  But we only skipped her by this 1 year because she was a bit immature and we wanted her to be more impressive to colleges. The issue with this situation is that she missed senior prom and all other senior activities. She was invited to graduation but wasn't a part of anything else. It was fine for this child but I would not recommend it.

2) My second child skipped 8th grade. I also do not recommend this to anyone unless you were in our situation which is that she had BAD friends (drugs, etc) and we needed her to be put in a different school with different friends and we couldn't afford private. She was also academically advanced enough to skip a grade but not enough where I would have done it in a different situation. The advantage is that she then had a normal high school experience.

3) My third child "skipped" 5th grade. She was not academically advanced at all (if anything, she was behind), but she had just missed the cut-off for kindergarten so was a full year older than everyone in the grade, was physically and socially so mature that all of her friends were always a year older (and her softball team was by age and not grade which did not help). We knew when we allowed her to skip that it was not going to be good academically for her but even the principal of the middle school agreed that it was better for her to be an average student that was fitting in than an advanced student with no friends. For us, this child is by far doing the best in a year advanced. In fact, her grades went from Bs to As when we were expecting them to go from Bs to Cs, so that was the biggest shock is that when a kid is happy socially, they do so much better academically too.[/quote]

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