I didn't but I could have. They didnn't do it when I was in school. My son skipped 2 grades. At one point his sixth grade teacher could no longer challenge him as he knew more than she did. She really did say that.
I had a feeling you might have skipped a grade or two. I skipped two, and felt out of place most of the time. Especially graduating at 16 was most uncomfortable. I wasnt ready .
Everyone in the school liked him...except the teachers. He was a member of an underground newspaper that bashed everything and used a lot of profanity. A news crew here went to random classrooms and they just happened to choose him for an interview about how to solve some of schools' problems. He said "Fire half the teachers." I was quite proud of him, but his teachers were suspicious of him.
I skipped second grade and every kid in town hated me forever.
The first grade teacher told me not to get ahead of the class, as if it were my responsibility to be stupid. Then she promoted me to second grade just before the end of the year, so in effect I went from first to third. Even at that I was always a couple years ahead of my grade. I was reading 8th grade level in third grade, and studying my brother's high school physics book in 6th grade. When I got into high school I thought I had been set free to learn all I could, but the teachers just wished I would sit the h*ll down and shut the h*ll up. When I got into college I began to realize that I was totally unprepared to meet the world.
I had an opportunity to (from 4th to 6th) but now I'm glad I didn't. I think for my emotional sake it was the right choice to go through each grade with everyone else even though the coursework wasn't challenging me.
No, I did not. I was a "normie". I always got straight A's without much effort, but was not particularly remarkable otherwise. Having a birthday in December meant I was older than most of the kids in my class too.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at December 5, 2017 5:41 PM MST
Element 99 