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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pros: 
Kept him interested and motivated in math.
Showed more maturity being with older kids.

Cons:
Having to bus to another school for some years which left less time for extracurriculars, friends and regular down time kids need like playing in the yard.
Real homework at an earlier age which left less time for everything above.
Some minor bullying, not physical, which DC was able to fend off but was still annoying.
Worrying about whether child would be developmentally ready to make the leap to real abstraction. It's a thing like reading you know. This is why many PPs said their child had more of a challenge in Algebra II where everything is variables.
Being accelerated doesn't necessarily mean you're with like-minded kids in our district. You're just going a grade ahead and there are as many unmotivated kids in those classes as in the grade-level classes.

OP, how many kids from Howard are accelerated? It sounds like a lot if they are having a meeting. [/quote]

Thank you.  Your cons are some of the things that I'm concerned about.

I don't know how many students in Howard are accelerated.  My family just relocated to Howard from another state last year.    Howard's accelerated program is broken up in two categories.  There are accelerated students like my child who will take Algebra I in the sixth grade.  However, for the students who are exceptionally gifted and I'm not sure what course they will take for 6th grade.  I only know one student who happens to be a neighbor of mine whose kid is exceptionally gifted.    Other than that, until I attend this orientation I don't know the percentage of students who are accelerated in Howard.  Howard uses the SCAT and CogAT tests to determine placement for GT Math in middle school.   [/quote]

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