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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is another thing. Do you know that starting in Algebra, your child's grade goes in HS diploma. Will your child be mature enough to turn in all HWs, do team projects (with much older kids), quizzes and tests with As?
Will your child be mature enough for FINALs? PARCC for Algebra?
You may feel proud with 5th grader getting B in Algebra, but you will kill child's GPA...

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I think this is the most important point here.  OP - I'm really glad that your principal recognizes your child's exceptional abilities.  That's fantastic.  As the parent of a normal bright but not profoundly gifted kid, I can't really relate but I'm genuinely happy for you.  However, I think PP makes a great point about the GPA and high school transcript issue.  It sucks that you need to worry about a 5th grader's grade, but it is a legitimate concern.  I'd slow it down just a big, as PPs suggest, and give your child the chance to mature by one more year before tackling a difficult course that will appear on his college application transcript. [/quote]

Wow, I think this is the least important.  Yes, Algebra and above goes on HS transcript, but date completed and that it was pre-HS is also noted.  If it were to come to taking a HS class as a 5th grader and it were to be a bad grade, does anyone really think it would hurt college chances if the next seven years of work are stellar?

The bigger concern is as other PP have suggested, there are some developmental hurdles between ES arithmetic and later classes.  A child who is exceptionally good, now still may not progress at twice the rate of his peers.  Sounds like acceleration within ES is working now, he's happy, go with it.  But keep options open and don't count on the regular course sequence.  If he does transfer to an HGC, repeating a year of math with the 5th grade HGC students or even his own class in that setting could easily be more rewarding than IM at the MS.[/quote]

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