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[quote=Anonymous]FWIW, as a child I was in a very similar situation.  I skipped 5th grade, but was young even for my original cohort, so my parents didn't like the idea of sending me to the 7th-9th junior high at just-turned-11.

I transferred to private and repeated a year there.  I have other complaints about that experience, but repeating the grade was fine .  They kept me accelerated in math with a small group of other bright students, which was actually nice for me socially, because it automatically grouped me with the handful of other gifted/nerd students, who became a strong cohort for me all the way through 12th.  The social studies, science, and English lit curricula were different enough that I wasn't actually repeating the material I'd learned the previous year.

It was definitely true that most of the students at my high school (which was relatively similar to Gilman, although co-ed) wouldn't meet the standard criteria for gifted; they were just from wealthy families who had sent their kids there starting in preK or K.  But there was a small group of families like mine, who had kind of given up on getting the public system to work for their gifted kids, and the school accommodated us pretty well.  [/quote]

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