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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grade acceleration is generally a bad idea because the kids can end up being socially isolated.  I know more than one person who skipped grades and then ended up dropping out of college for a while because being so much younger than their peers made it hard.[/quote]

Your anecdotal experience has long been disproven by actual research.

[i]There is general consensus in the field, supported by the extant literature, that acceleration is a uniquely appropriate instructional strategy for gifted learners (Argys, Rees, & Brewer, 1996; Colangelo, Assouline, & Gross, 2004).

(...) Few studies find negative social or affective consequences associated with acceleration for groups of students,
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Read it yourself:

https://www.apa.org/ed/schools/gifted/rethinking-giftedness.pdf
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This literature review does not say what you imply it does. First, it does not deal with social maturity, friendships, etc. Second, accelerating [i]groups [/i]of students (in the line you quoted, which is nearly the only on-topic line in the article) is different from one kid skipping a grade and being socially younger than classmates. Third, later in that same section they say that students who skip grades may have difficulties if not appropriately assessed for readiness and maturity, which is a hand-wavy way of saying that everybody who has problems wasn't ready.[/quote]

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