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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We did this with my son.  He started K early.  We actually didn’t mean for it to happen.  He was in a mixed age classroom and he was advanced through the preschool curriculum early and was academically ready for more.

We switched schools after 6th grade and had him repeat 6th.  He wasn’t having issues at all, but I felt it was in his best interest long term to be older rather than the youngest.  He is very bright and academically several grades ahead- regardless of if he stayed in the same grade.  He would still be far ahead.  In middle school, he had access to highly accelerated academic programming, so he was able to be challenged and having him be older gave him some maturity to navigate all the extra work he was receiving and manage it appropriately.  He’s in high school now and doing amazing.  I do think he would have been fine had we not repeated, but he is doing so well now I’m glad we did.  [/quote]

He isn’t several grades ahead if you dropped him down.  He’s where he should have been if you did not hold him back.  [/quote]

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