[Oz-gifted] Saw the counsellor today...

[Matthew & Tracey Wood]

Hi Ellen,

If friendships are the issue, better to do it as early as possible IMO as
that's never going to get easier. 

My DD was jumped two years after year one to year 4. Looking back, we should
have done it a year earlier as year one was when she was the most
unhappy....having said that Acceleration is not for everyone and S was a
perfect candidate. She missed her old friends for about a week and moved on
to new friends who she had so much more in common with. I believe if a
multiple jump is necessary it's better to do it in one go rather than two
(too much disruption) so if you need to wait a year for him to be ready for
that, then it might be the ways to go. But, if it's not obvious he needs a
two year skip now, one may be all he needs. It was really obvious S was
ready for a two year skip even in Kindy.

Tracey


>My feeling is that rather than jump him from K to 2 instead of 1, it would
be less traumatic wrt friendships to hold off >for a year until we
understand him a bit better, then perhaps jump him a couple of years rather
than just one.  Anyone >done this?  Any comments?
--
>Ellen Hrebeniuk
>Sydney, Australia

Being a librarian is how you change the world.
Nancy Pearl

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