Re: why is high IQ needed for skipping ?

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There's so little data really to support anything...

Each school has its own way of doing things often and then
they try to justify what they do. The real reasons for things
done as they are is usually it's the whim of some
adminstrator, the 'brainchild' of some administrator and -
there has to be a line drawn somewhere, somehow and so they
scramble around drawing the line and then defending it.

When I was a child, 1st grade was routinely skipped if you
came in to 1st grade reading. Then for years everybody
poohpoohed grade skipping as 'bad for social skills'.

Any child who's mastered 85% of the skills of a grade is
likely pretty high IQ anyway - don't look for good sense
behind any rationale offered by any school. Usually the
reason is - if we let you do this, then others will find out
and want to do it too and then what we will do?

Or - someone somewhere really believes that this child should
not go on to the grade ahead and they just made up a rule on
the spot as to why not. Ask them for the data and when they
can't produce any, then ask again why they really have
this 'rule'.
Good luck.

> I see *that* you must be in the top ten percent on ability,
> according to all the going thought, to be considered for
> grade skipping, but I don't know *why.* If a child has
> mastered 85% of the skills to be taught in a grade, why
> isn't that enough? Achievement should count for more. Why
> can't an above average IQ person, say, 65th percentile, be
> considered? I don't see the rationale for top ten percent
> and skipping. It's like saying only the very smartest kids
> in the population can succeed at being away from their
> age-mates. Is there data anywhere that supports this?
 

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