"There is some social learning that you just miss out on if you don't spend time with your age-peers." What if you've already learned it? Two examples: 1) My

"There is some social learning that you just miss out on if you don't spend time with your age-peers." What if you've already learned it? Two examples: 1) My little sister: never skipped a grade, but as early as 6th grade, she preferred the company of teachers to students. At middle school science fairs and such, teachers from other schools would occasionally ask her where she taught. Clearly, she was socializing on an adult level. 2) My wife: through a running start program, ended up going to college at age 15. Someone wrote an editorial in the college newspaper complaining about 16-year-olds on campus being hard to identify, and how embarrassing it is for a 20-year-old to find out he's been flirting with a minor. One of her 16-year-old classmates complained, and she countered that the editorial made a reasonable point. Her classmate's response was "you only think that because you're not sixteen." He mistook her for substantially older, again, because she was socializing like a 21-year-old. The point of both of these examples: there's no reason to artificially push a kid to socialize with people of his age. Let him socialize with people of his social level. If he already socializes like a college student, he's not going to benefit from hanging out with kids who socialize like 8th graders.