skip a class-good or bad?

amother

Sun, Feb 10 2008, 12:50 pm

dd is very smart.the principal called us last week and suggested to skip a class now and not to wait for next year.some say it is going to be bad socially.what do you think?

Seraph ↓

Sun, Feb 10 2008, 12:58 pm

Skipping a class is really a temporary solution and isnt the best idea socially. I skipped, and after a few years, skipped again and again...

The best solution really is to supplement the classwork with enrichment work...
Speaking from experience...

Ruchel ↓

Sun, Feb 10 2008, 1:00 pm

My parents did it for me, and I'm forever thankful. I needed more mature peers, more complicated courses, and I have been able to lose a year (much later, due to being preg) without being late.

Supplementing the classwork is only possible in gifted children schools. I've been there... it was horrible. Most kids were totally nuts.

↑ Seraph

Sun, Feb 10 2008, 1:51 pm

Ruchel wrote:

Supplementing the classwork is only possible in gifted children schools. I've been there... it was horrible. Most kids were totally nuts.

Not quite.

Lets say Chaya Gitty is really good at math. So while everyone else is working on simple geometry stuff, Chaya Gitty is teaching herself proofs and working on another project that her teacher assigned her, extra credit.

↑ Ruchel ↓

Sun, Feb 10 2008, 1:53 pm

I don't see it being allowed in French schools, honestly. People would yell "unequal treatment, favoritism".

Mimisinger

Mon, Feb 11 2008, 5:49 pm

Been there done that, sent to an enrichment program out of the school. Either way it's going to be difficult. Maybe a new grade in a different school? She'll be able to start fresh?

ffbmom ↓

Mon, Feb 11 2008, 6:59 pm

Here's my take on skipping. It's almost never done any more. What is new in the education field is differentiated instruction. I guess for this you need real qualified teachers. What some teachers call enrichment is really just busy work meant to get the gifted kids off their hair. If this isn't around in your school, you might want to do some research and be an advocate for your child. I find that skipping does not work cuz a very bright child will skip a year and pretty soon will need to skip that year too. Thing to do is to give them enrichment out, not up, meaning more meaningful and deeper exercises. If you want more info, let me know or pm me.

↑ Ruchel ↓

Tue, Feb 12 2008, 5:16 am

Louche: having seen what happens to these children, I see no other word. I could have just written the list of things inflicted on them, but it would be long and depressing.

Ffbmom: public school says itself it's not equipped or allowed to do special treatment. At best you can have other harder exercizes to do, or next week's homework, or whatever. Often the grade won't even be counted - lost time, lost efforts. So they skip a grade, or send the child to a gifted school. Both happened to me, but gifted school was such a horror that I prefered going back to public and be bored to death, and not be around nutty kids.

↑ ffbmom

Tue, Feb 12 2008, 2:58 pm

Sorry, Ruchel, I don't agree. Public schools in the US (everything starts in California) have really gotten on the bandwagon for differentiated instruction. Why bore the gifted? I'm talking about meaningful activities, not paper and pencil boring tasks or next week's homework. Skipping just does not work.

↑ Ruchel

Wed, Feb 13 2008, 3:21 am

ffbmom wrote:

Let's hope it will arrive in France in a few years. Skipping does work though, I was clearly a bit less bored.