First point: a lot of students get "accelerated" by their parents as a way of improving their academic performance and aiming the toward an elite college. … I

First point: a lot of students get "accelerated" by their parents as a way of improving their academic performance and aiming the toward an elite college. … I don't think this has to be bad, but it's not the "gifted acceleration" and can be tough on these students if expectations are that they are "fast". Their parents don’t care, on the contrary they want it to be tough on their kids. They aren’t interested in raising happy, well adjusted kids. What they want is rich kids (that marry the correct spouses.)