So long as she can hack it on a social level, you should move your daughter up a grade. She needs challenges or else she will get lazy about learning (no offense). Get a lawyer to just write a letter to the school outlining your right to have your daughter bumped a grade and the principal will probably back down.

Let’s say that your daughter is not moved right into second grade. If she is advanced, then the teacher should be differentiating instruction in a way that your daughter is still challenged and can still improve and progress. As for her moving into second grade or not, was she tested by the child study team to find out exactly what academic levels she is on? If you come in to a child study meeting, with a folder of samples of your daughter’s work from school and anything you do at home, and journal of what your daughter has accomplished (ex: tonight, my daughter read all of the Spot Book on her own in ten minutes”), then they may be more likely to test her to find her academic levels. Once the test results come back, if she is above average academically, then you can present that to the principal and board if necessary. Even if all of this is done this school year, there is hope that she can skip from 1st to third. Or at least be enrolled in any kind of gifted and talented program the school offered. I hope I have offered you some ideas.

I was really bored in school for the first few years, too. Even though I was a year younger than my peers, I could read, write and do third grade level math. I would, however advice against moving her up a class. Before you do, please consider the following:

– Her social skills may match those older than her. She might be mature, but that does not mean that she is good at age-appropriate interaction.

– Especially in cases where a child is intellectually quite ahead of her peers, gross and fine motor skills/coordination might not be at ALL. This is truly something that I struggled with for many years. It may not be evident now, but she may have a harder time controlling her body when learning new physical things that require coordination(dancing and skating were my two major hangups). Since she (and her classmates) are used to her succeeding and being good at most things, her shortcomings might be glaring, and she might avoid or refuse to do things she’s not good at all.

– If/when she is the youngest of a class, she will always be somewhat of an outsider, one that’s not like the rest.

I would strongly suggest that you get her used to doing homework – if she doesn’t have any, find something. Talk to her teacher, to find (additional) material that she can work with/on. The most important thing is to keep her stimulated and interested until the other kids “catch up” with her. Make a point not teaching her new – for instance math skills – so that she will have to learn, say, subtraction or multiplication with her classmates.

While “waiting” for her class mates, she could learn about history, geography, religion – whatever tickles her fancy.

She may always be ahead of her classmates, and she should certainly be pushed to be all she can be, but for now at least, I think the best way for that to happen is with her class.

Best of luck to both of you!

If the principal is unwilling, go over his head to the local school board.

You will need to have ample proof–that’s test scores and other proof, not just the opinion of loving parents and relatives–of your child’s academic prowess and her social skills, since a child who knows what’s being taught may still need to learn how to manage in a classroom (and later, a world) filled with people who are not as smart as she is.

The teacher may be your ally in this, if you approach her correctly. It’s her job to do her best by every student, and she’s probably quite aware your daughter is bored.

It sounds as if your child is gifted. A gifted child should not necessarily be moved in with children that are older than herself. Start with the guidance counselor and have your child’s IQ tested (she may be a little young for IQ testing – but ask anyway). Then, the guidance counselor will tell you all the options that are available – gifted enrichment, gifted classes, etc. There are many options available in the public schools, but if you are still unhappy with them, try private and religious schools. Also, develop a good relationship with your principal and guidance counselor – it will pay off in the end.

As long as the principle is sending her into more challenging classrooms, why do you want her to be moved up. Let her stay with her classmates. Does she have alot of friends? Will it be harder on her socially to move up a grade? Maybe you can ask some of her teachers to give her extra work that might be more challenging for her. Good luck to her, I hope the outcome will be the best for her.

It sounds like you may be causing her not to like school. You are setting the precedence for her to buck the system. Your daughter is probably no brighter than anyone else’s. Every parent thinks their kid is the smart one. Let her go to school with children her own age and experience having friends. School should be a learning experience, not a competition between parent, child, and school.

I think you should skip her up. Private school is fast pace academically ~ you could try that. Online lessons, or just homeschooled would help her gradute early. However, the best thing to do if wait for her to complain once more before you do anything that might make you regret it later down the road. Good Luck =)

I skipped the 2nd, which needless to say isn’t as massive of a deal as skipping as severe a grade because of the fact the seventh. i assumed it grew to become into extremely cool in the commencing up. there have been 2 massive risks, in spite of the indisputable fact that. the 1st grew to become into that an entire 12 months of my life grew to become into long previous with the contract. the 2nd grew to become into that it made me extremely overconfident in myself. i assumed i could on no account could desire to attempt perplexing and that i could get each and every thing without delay. i did not attempt so perplexing in math (my toughest concern) as I could desire to have, tremendously in the 10th grade as quickly as I took Algebra II. yet nevertheless, you’re probable sufficiently previous to not be as naive as i grew to become into back then and you need to probable cope with it extra helpful. I variety of want i did not bypass a grade yet I did so i don’t think of I could desire to tell you to not. i think of the greatest benefit is (needless to say) being able to assert which you skipped a grade. it is almost a great element (sorry if i’m sounding boastful.) So i could say to think of it over. sturdy success.

it’s better off for her to go to second grade. if she still becomes bored to death, all the learning from her being ahead will just like disappear, because she is not being challenged. but, if she’s sent off to far like third grade, she’ll be picked on because everyone is older than her. second grade would be perfect for your daughter.