Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on May 16, 2008 - 08:45.
Skipping a grade may have negative effects, but staying with your grade does as well. My parents said no to double or triple promoting me, and kept me with my grade level. I worked independently for math and language arts, so that I would be challenged. Staying with my grade didn't improve my social life. I was still awkward, thinking about things the other students weren't thinking about.
The hardest thing for me, was that I needed to learn how to work at things to succeed. I thought things came easily, if they didn't, it meant you were bad at it. (So I often didn't do work that I thought was too hard.) When I got to college, I saw a lot of students in the same position. Brilliant, but unable to study. And yes, still socially awkward, despite being with their peers. Perhaps its just as accurate to say that more mature students are better able to work with a young classmate, than equally mature peers who don't "get" a gifted child and their quirkiness.
Skipping a grade
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on May 16, 2008 - 08:45.
Skipping a grade may have negative effects, but staying with your grade does as well. My parents said no to double or triple promoting me, and kept me with my grade level. I worked independently for math and language arts, so that I would be challenged. Staying with my grade didn't improve my social life. I was still awkward, thinking about things the other students weren't thinking about.
The hardest thing for me, was that I needed to learn how to work at things to succeed. I thought things came easily, if they didn't, it meant you were bad at it. (So I often didn't do work that I thought was too hard.) When I got to college, I saw a lot of students in the same position. Brilliant, but unable to study. And yes, still socially awkward, despite being with their peers. Perhaps its just as accurate to say that more mature students are better able to work with a young classmate, than equally mature peers who don't "get" a gifted child and their quirkiness.