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Originally posted by tmdiva
Anyone else read the article in the latest Time magazine about grade skipping?
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Anyone have personal experience with this issue, either for yourself or with your kids?
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My grade school wanted me to skip a grade (fourth, I think). My parents refused at the time, and have offered various reasons why over the years. The problem was, my best friend in school was given the same offer, and his parents accepted. I'm sure everything would have been fine if I had skipped fourth grade but had a close friend in fifth grade.
In retrospect, with how much private school cost, I think my parents would have skipped me just to save the cash.
I did very well in grade school, but my parents had no idea what I was being taught. My parents liked the religious nature of the K-8 schools where their children went, but they might have had second thoughts if they knew what nutjobs they really were. On the plus side, I'm inherently skeptical of organized religion and predisposed to fundamentalism of all kinds. I don't think that's what they were shooting for, but unintended consequences...
