Parents....Do you think it is always fair to Skip your child up a grade ?

There are times when it becomes unfair to the child to keep them in a grade where you see clearly that they are not operating at the maximum brain capacity. They tend to relax and become complacent which might backfire later on. I believe in keeping them challenged it allows them to appreciate their own personal worth.

no I think they should stay with their peers. They may excel in class work but if you bump them they will be behind age wise and feel very small. They should provide advanced learning for his her age.

I think they should stay with their peers, I think it would make it harder on the child peer wise, I mean my sister skiped two grades and it was harder on her to make friends, because they were all older than she was

I think that it all depends on the individual child, some children continue to excel when they skip a grade where some it seems to cause more harm than good, I think the child should have some say in it, and I think alot of things need to be taken into consideration before the choice is made to let a child skip a grade.

I think it depends more on how mature they are, not how smart they are. If they are not mature enough to handle it, they should not be forced to do it.

I did fine in school! I was skipped 2 grades, not because I was that smart, it was because I was only 11 and in a couple of months, I started my period, got huge boobs and looked like a woman at only 11. So that I wouldn't suffer any psychological problems, they took me from 3rd grade and put me in 5th grade and I passed all the tests and fit in much better! It made me very happy!!!!

Yes I would if the child seemed bored with his/her grade. When the work is too easy for the child, he will not be challenged mentally.

Well, that happened to me. As my cousin and I had learned how to read with my grandmother, after a few days the teacher hold us by the hand and took us to 1st. grade. The first days I didn't like the change, but afterwards all was O.K.

i'm not a parent but would like to ans it... well! i would say it is ok with just one grade when is too small else he may be good at studies but probably lack in extracuricullar activitys...but tat entirely depends on the evironment he is studing and living...

I think it is, because if your child is smarter than his age, keeping him in a grade that bores him, will make him not want to go to school or even try.. My son is like that, he gets really bord in school, he is in 2nd grade, in the 1st grade, he thought he was smarter than his teacher and goofed off. Until we talked and now he ask his teacher to teach him more advance things, he learned to multiply in the 1st grade..

I think if the child is so advanced in their present grade that they are bored with the work, then it would be wrong not to let them skip ahead if thats what they wanted to do.

My oldest daughter was given the chance to skip a grade when she was in grade school. She was already in accelerated classes, and the teachers she had seemed to be pushing for this. I told my daughter the choice was totally up to her. She decided on her own that she would rather remain with the grade she was in to stay with her peers she grew up with. She did not want to be younger than the kids in the grade she would be bumped up to. Now that she's older she has often said that she was glad she made this choice, and was glad we didn't push her. The teachers, at the time, were afraid she would get bored, so it was suggested that she be a sort of teachers aid/classroom tutor instead, and helped the kids that were doing poorly understand the materials.

No, let him stay with his friends and develop at his own pace, elsewhere.

no they should go step by step

My oldest son skiped a class.. The teachers that he had would not chalenge him. He got bored. when he moved up it set his mind to working again.It was the best thing for him. The only down fall was that he graduated at 16. His mind is so busy all the time.

i dont think so many of the parents dont do so!!!there are some who might do this

no...dont think so...it wont be fair to the child..learning is a step by step process...you just cant jump onto the 3rd step from the first...it will be putting too much burden on the child..

I am not sure if I would let my child do this. When I went to kindergarten they wanted to bump me up to first grade, but my mom said no. Her theory was that you learn more than academic stuff in school and social skills are just as important if not more so sometimes. That is something you just have to learn by experience. Could this child's education be expanded after school hours(with tutoring on different subjects not offered at the school maybe like a foreign language or piano lessons etc)without moving them up a grade? Just an option. That is probably what I would do for my child.

It depends on the child and how mature they are. They need to have some say in the decision. For some children one grade is not a big deal because there is not that much age difference, but for others it may be a big adjustment.

I will ask the child, maybe he wants to. I did. I asked my mother (when I was in primary school) to skip up a grade.