You can get social experience with students older than yourself. Keeping the child among age peers, but not conversational peers, or intellectual peers may be

You can get social experience with students older than yourself. Keeping the child among age peers, but not conversational peers, or intellectual peers may be precisely the reason they are not more social. Like I said, I was always more social with older kids, so putting me with older kids would have improved my social abilities. I say we should be pragmatic and stop creating generalized rules for these students. It's the general rule is hurting some kids. Let the child go to college. If he can't hack it, kick him out just like you'd kick out any other college kid who can't make the grades, cheating, or breaking school other rules. I never could relate to kids my own age who didn't understand the world the way I did. They thought I was stupid. I thought they were stupid. The older kids knew I was smart and I thought they were smart and it was awesome to be around them. As soon as we get out of school, the age association ends. When I started working, I immediately progressed to positions well above the level where other people much older were working for years. I was admired, not hated. I appreciated it and people thanked me for helping them understand their own jobs better. I hate saying all this because it sounds conceited, but I think it is important for society that we allow the best and brightest to have a positive impact on the world as soon as they can and for as long as possible. People don't live forever, let them get the most out of life that they can and let society reap the rewards of their productivity. As we move forward, it's taking longer and longer to understand the world enough to make a positive contribution and we need to give these prodigies as long as they need to do it.