I'm still packing....but can't resist the lure of this place, LOL! But I wanted to briefly say from "hindsight" that Jool's approach is excellent. Honestly, if you have the kid too prepared for 2nd, he'll surely need 3rd. The best times of our skips have been at the very beginning, when a little effort was needed. (Remind me of that come fall, LOL!)

For us at least, the early years were the easiest from a friend standpoint. Granted, DS didn't really "skip" early, but was young rather from an early start. Still....age type questions were rare for us until about 3rd/4th grade. Then with each skip we went through an initial period where the general public was shocked/surprised/questioning/etc. But this typically dies down. DS is pretty much just "that kid" at this point.

I still don't know how best to respond with the occasional questions. DS probably gets comments more than me. His carefree shrug type response is probably best...it is what it is!

Best wishes, and enjoy the summer!

Dottie, I'm imagining you with a gun!

Oh, thanks for the reminder...I can't bring that where I'm going, !

ROFL!

Maybe you can sneak a prison shank!

Okay, Dottie, what's AWK? I'm intrigued now ...

Away Without Keyboard....obviously not QUITE yet, but I swear I'm leaving............

DD skipped K and I didn't prepare her academically. For us, that was a mistake. Where we made the mistake was that she had never learned how to learn math. She was intuitive, could add and subtract, measure, and do the life skills type of math, but she had never seen a tally mark and didn't know the lingo that they use on math tests. So, she got placed much lower than her ability. It was still possible to move her up, but it took a lot of time (3/4ths of the year)and the teacher had to function outside her comfort zone to allow it. Finally when dd became a behavior problem, they made it work. If I had it to do over again, I would have taught her what was going to be on her placement tests so she would have been placed right from the start.
Has your child already had the tests to determine level for next year, do they even do that at your school? I guess that would be a question I might ask and then ask if the school sees any deficit areas.
Socially, we also had a difficult time. At the young age, a lot of parents are worried about how their child fits into school and to see yours skip can make them wonder about their own dc and their parenting. DDs friends were hitting the workbooks pretty hard when they found out. One friend dropped us cold, but then apologized 8 months later about how silly she'd been- and now we are best of friends again. We are nonconfrontational type people so that might be the problem. We wouldn't flat out lie, but we would let people believe what they assumed, so when they finally saw she was skipped, it might have been a shock. Had we been upfront from the start, we might have done better.
But all is well now, nobody is the wiser, and life goes on, except that school is too easy again.....So my best advice: enjoy the time when it's working. Really savor it.

Oh Master of None -- this is so annoying! I'm sorry for the social issues and sorry for the educational issues. It just shouldn't be such a big deal to do something a little outside-the-box.

My biggest fear (and I have a few!) about grade skipping is your last comment that school is too easy again. UGH! What are you going to do? Any plans to skip again? Do you think the increased level of challenge, even if insufficient, is still better for your DD? Do you think one more skip would get you better situated, or would it still be too easy again in a short time?

Nervous Chatter Alert:



DS11 is of the firm opinion that we adults should STAY OUT of kid slang. Gulp - I hope he never sees this -
AWK stands for

AWay from Keyboard

A terrible condition! Right now I'm At Work with Keyboard, but I'll be AWK for a week starting midday friday! I'll miss you all!

Love and More Love,
Grinity

My parents never told me. Suddenly I was in the group that was grade skipping. At least I don't remember them telling me. But it was a comment much like, wear rain boots today, probably, you are accelerating at school.

Didn't phase me but there were about 8 kids skipping. A natural part of grade 3.

Ren