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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For what it’s worth I went to HYP and knew exactly one person who had ever skipped a grade. And later in graduate school at Yale I had a friend who was designated as “profoundly gifted” as a child, and skipped at least four grades and graduated from University of Colorado with his BS at age 17. He then ended up at graduate school at Yale with the rest of us, where he was not any more gifted than the average Yale PhD student and had had the unfortunate situation of never having had a “normal” childhood or adolescence. I always felt so bad for him, and he constantly expresses how he wished his parents had known more about what other families with smart kids did (they don’t typically skip grades if they’re well off - they challenge in other ways).

I think the question about WHY you would accelerate a child is the right one. A good private school will engage and challenge a child by going deeper, not by accelerating. Those kids can then rise to the top of their class and end up at a top college and top graduate program - all without denying them the opportunity to have an otherwise normal childhood with his or her peers.
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I think you should save your pity for someone else. 
That child would have been bored to tears if they had not worked ahead. They don't know for themselves how awful it would have been to be stuck with well off high achievers working ahead one grade level instead of actually working at their capability. Sidwell does not meet the needs of a highly gifted child. Feyman and schools that actually cater to this very small group will. 
High achieving students--yes, even at Yale, gasp!-- are not all highly gifted and never will be. Many there just work really hard.[/quote]

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