I just had the discussion about skipping grades today. The comment I hear a lot is about whether the child is ready socially. From that I take the comment to mean that the person would rather the child be bored to death in school than be immature for the grade. I’ve done the bored in school years ago… really for me it just made me tune out everything and not care to do the work…. Teachers frequently don’t want to add to their workload to differentiate the learning. (Which I do understand. Teachers today are underpaid and overworked besides having to deal with extra items like classrooms being targets that should never have been added to their job description.)
The problem is the kids are suffering. I don’t know how many times we heard phrases like “Doing too well academically to provide an IEP”. Our local school district has information about gifted education in their handbook but nothing in the schools available. The only option for us returning to the public school after homeschooling (COVID days) was to go not skip a grade and they offered to pull him out for ‘everything he’s ahead in’…. which meant that he would be alone in the principal’s office or by himself in a room working on advanced work all day (except PE)… I’m guessing he might have been left in the gen pop classes for social studies also… Talking to the ELA teacher at the time, the response was to assume he needed special ed because…
