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Edyie
By josephineg

You wrote:

"Although she was ahead , if I had pushed her into first grade she would have been very young and small compared to her classmates which would put her in a position that she could have been made fun of
or bullied."

Acceleration is not pushing. Please read the report: "A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students", The Templeton National Report on Acceleration, 2002, and see for yourself.

I too was very young when I went to kindergarden, and although I was never accelerated, I ALWAYS was the smallest child in class. Somebody has to be, accelerated

or not, right?

If a child is going to be a bully, the bully can find ANYTHING to make fun of. Are you really going to hold back your child academics out of fear of something that may not even happen? This, when bullying is against school policy in the first place?

You write: "Why put them ahead and let them be in a class where they seem average when they are not!" I reply: Because they deserve to have a chance to learn to be productive, and to learn to use and develop their talents. Because they deserve to be with their mental peers, to help them learn to socialize with them, and to grow at their own pace, not someone else's. No one is served when the gifted are underserved. Teaching a child to underachieve, to "let her shine" with easy As, to wait until college to learn what academic demands and rigor really are--is a set-up for an unhappy childhood and adulthood. It underserves and betrays the child and her potential. That's why.

All the best.