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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a risk of getting too far ahead that a kid then gets bored and/or disruptive because elementary school teachers are not going to create a special curriculum for a kid too far ahead.

We didn't formally supplement and kids still are routinely 95+ percentile. I would probably get tutoring if before grade level. My oldest kid is now working 1 grade level ahead in middle school (8th grader doing 9th grade math). There is a small class of kids working two grades ahead. Of the parents of the of those kids who I'm friends with, one forced supplementation and the kid now hates math. The other two as far as I can tell just had kids who pick up math really quickly. One of those did daily Khan academy in the summer. Not sure about the other.[/quote]

You wouldn't not let your kid read harder books because they might get too far ahead in ELA, and I think if your child is the one with the math interest, it's the same thing. I don't expect school to cater to my kids, but neither am I going to avoid teaching them something they want to learn because it might be an issue there. [/quote]

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