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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no doubt that she is highly gifted.  The issue is what to do with your highly gifted kid when they're bored out of their mind and miserable in elementary.  Not skipping means that they continue hating school.  Skipping means that they aren't going to be competitive in a magnet school with equally gifted kids who are 3 years older.

Had she been in FCPS, she would not have been allowed to skip more than 1 grade, and AAP would have perhaps been adequate enough that she wouldn't have felt the need to skip grades.[/quote]

These parents were not cornered into putting their 10 year old into a high school due to lack of alternatives.  I'm sure she is smart but she is not uniquely smart in this area.
She was taking geometry when she was 10.  But we do not see her achieving math honors in Mathcounts or the AMC 8, 10 or 12.  Meanwhile there is a kid at TJ on the US national team for the international math olympiad.  The stuff she does is extremely impressive for a 12 year old and maybe she can still academically outrun the average high school junior but not at TJ.

She skipped 3 grades but she is now struggling at TJ in almost all classes, her dreams of UVA undergrad and Caltech Phd all but gone, along with any semblance of a normal childhood.
She didn't have to skip 3 grades for enrichment.  Her parents are not poor, skipping 3 grades in public school was not their best or only option.  Accelerating 6 grades in math was nucking futz.[/quote]

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