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[quote=Anonymous]The entire concept of "grade skipping" is based on a presumption that there is a series of items that one must master, lockstep, before advancing to the next grade.  In public schools, this is basically true, and when one teacher is teaching 25+ students, they are all learning the same material at the same time.

Many private schools have 15 or fewer students per class, with one or sometimes two teachers and also with many additional specialists.  In that circumstance, a child's progress can be accelerated without skipping a grade, and a child can be challenged in one area (math, for example) without grouping the child with older kids in other classes (like art and music or social studies, where skipping a grade doesn't necessarily help the gifted).

In other words, private schools typically do not skip grades because they don't need to in order to accommodate extremely gifted students.  They also tend to go deeper rather than climb faster - and they know that ultimately this approach is advantageous in college admissions (and in life imo).[/quote]

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