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I attended a specialized school for students on an accelerated curriculum for grades 7-12…before that, I felt stymied by the regular public school system that was woefully inadequate and quite boring….I think they have special accelerated programs for kids on many college campuses (so that they can get extra intellectual stimulation)….My friend’s kid is a genius…she kept him in a private school during elementary and had a special tutor to spend extra time after school on Greek Mythology or Roman History, or whatever…Now he goes to HS (in a special gifted kids’ program at the local community college)….I think it was really important for him to develop close relationships with his peers (many of them are quite advanced, too)….he was going through a lot of psychological bumps in the road due to his parents’ divorce and subsequent custody and visitation battle (I think it really helped that he had a lot of friends and activity partners his own age to blow off steam with and to hang with)…
I don’t think he should be kept back with his peers because that will stunt his intellectual development and quite possibly bore him. I know one boy who was kept back all his life because his mother didn’t want him to progress, and he eventually dropped out of high school because it was far too easy for him. Now he’s in the military in the airforce doing things he’s always wanted to do but never could because the public school system just didn’t push him. There are a myriad of ways this boy can be with his peers that doesn’t involve school, like play dates, sports, organizations, like 4-H, and so many other things. School is not the only way kids can make friends.