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  •  mine is not a reader like yours (none / 0)

    I mean, he read early, but is only recently getting into reading for pleasure.  He's a math boy.  Always has been.  He went to a montessori preschool that really allowed him to develop and challenge his mathematical ability.  

    Are you looking forward to seventh?  I am not.  When Daniel skipped first grade I always figured we would do something different with his extra year, so he would hit intermediate at the same age as his class mates.  Only thing is -- he really doesn't like that idea.  He wants to go to seventh with his peer group, and I don't think it would be fair to yank him out of that, unless I had a really good reason.  Anyway, I don't have a really good reason, only a concern that he is too little for intermediate school....

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    by sophiebrown on Mon Oct 10, 2005 at 08:29:04 AM PDT

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    •  My friend has a son (none / 0)

      Bright, gifted and Aspberger's.  His school didn't want to let him skip a year, so instead they let him take math classes with the next grade and mainstreamed him with his regular class. Both he and his older brother are official in class tutors for their classmates

      I'm not sure what the current bias against skipping a grade stems from, but if the schools make an effort to accomadote gifted students then I won't complain.  I think before gifted programs and the like, they just skipped grades because the kids were bored and making trouble.

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      by Fabian on Mon Oct 10, 2005 at 08:51:36 AM PDT

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      •  Because even if the kid is very bright, (none / 0)

        he will probably be behind the older kids socially (especially if he has Asperger's).  The fact is, for bright kids, the socialization aspects of elementary school are as important is the educational aspects.  Once the kid gets into middle school/junior high, classes are much more segregated by ability and kids can take classes with the students in the higher grades.  

        by msanthrope on Mon Oct 10, 2005 at 09:01:50 AM PDT

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        •  Yeah, Aspberger's is like that. (none / 0)

          His parents are great and the school is pretty impressive for a public school.  He is failing one class because he is doing the homework but isn't handing it in.  Kids these days! :)

          (He and I have done the discussion about 'labelling'.  We like it because it gets our kids the help they need, but then it marks them as 'different' when we want them to fit in.)

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          by Fabian on Mon Oct 10, 2005 at 09:20:19 AM PDT

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    •  My son was only in school for 3 semesters (none / 0)

      the rest of the time I have homeschooled him.  He went to public school the last half of 4th grade (when he should have been in 3rd but they moved him up) and for 5th grade.  I pulled him out of school to homeschool again this year.

      I really hate the public school culture and especially in middle school.  They may make fun of him and bully him because he is smaller but if you hold him back he will be bored.  Damned if you do...

      You have my sympathies.

      My son reads will but is not strong in Math.  He made Bs in math.

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      by TXsharon on Mon Oct 10, 2005 at 10:17:45 AM PDT

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