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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I appreciate all of the thoughts given.  What is clear to us is that it isn’t an easy situation to navigate.  What makes it most challenging, perhaps, is the fact that there are so few other instances of other children and families in the same situation.  We were told from the beginning that he is a true outlier.  The county has seen a few other children like this, but not many.  [/quote]

My kid skipped 2 grades in elementary school and took Algebra I in 7th grade when he was 10 and entered HS at 12 and took precalc in 9th and Calc bc in 10th grade. Acceleration does happen.[/quote]

What exactly is the point you are trying to make? That your child is an outlier? Or that your child, accelerated as he was, was not in fact an outlier? Or because your child did Algebra at 10, the OP’s child is not an outlier?

We know acceleration happens, in math in particular, 6 grades ahead is not unheard of, depending on the child capabilities and how much effort the parents put in, the latter being a stronger determinant factor in my view.

Whatever the reason, Algebra in 5th is an outlier. If you look at typical map scores for Algebra readiness in the general population, you’re talking about top 20% for 8th graders, 5% for 7th graders, 1% for 6th graders and doing a rough extrapolation for 4th grade you get about 4 in 10000, in line with what a previous poster estimated. Again not unheard of but definitely rare enough so the school wouldn’t know how to deal with the situation.[/quote]

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