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Again, I will ask - would it be appropriate for some kids to be moved ahead a grade?  Perhaps MCPS does not do allow kids to skip a grade - I just don't know.  But it may be one solution.[/quote]

MCPS really does not allow grade skipping without a serious fight, as I understand it. and no it really isn't appropriate in the large majority of cases even if allowed.  The entire "redshirting" phenomenon precipitated by Malcolm Gladwell and others' findings that kids born around Sept who start school at older ages (rather than starting the year before)  do better suggests putting younger kids with older kids may have social and physical disadvantages later on.  I personally think gaming that and intentionally holding kids back is nuts, but I do think it's useful when considering skipping or grade promotion. Ask any of your "smart" friends who skipped grades  how they liked being the smallest, youngest kid in their grade.  Without exception I've not heard a single positive experience from our generation where this was more common.  If you have, and I know it seems unthinkable, a highly intellectually able kid who is also highly athletically able, they will be at a serious disadvantage come high school.  I hear rumors the big privates suggest, almost mandate redshirting for this reason.  I actually want my child to be a well-rounded person, but one who can maximize his potential, yes starting now.  He's no savant or Einstein.  He's a regular kid who is good at school, and especially math.  It shouldn't be that hard to just give him more challenging work, especially when kids do so much busy work at Math Zones or cutting and pasting.

At the start of the year, my kid's principal suggested he might take 3rd grade math as he is very advanced and in 2nd.  But 3rd grade math is scheduled when 2nd grade language arts is scheduled.  So skipping grades on selective subjects isn't really possible in our ES.[/quote]

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