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When I was in 4th grade (and maybe other grades too, I don't really remember), a friend and I were sent off to a 5th grade class specifically for math. I don't

by smrq 3y ago

When I was in 4th grade (and maybe other grades too, I don't really remember), a friend and I were sent off to a 5th grade class specifically for math. I don't know how practical this is in general; I was lucky to get a lot of accommodations when I had teachers that were willing or able to do so, and this was also the 90s, which presumably changes things in all sorts of ways I can't even imagine. But it did work back then.

fifilura 3y ago
Ha, when i was too far ahead (around 11yo), I got put in a separate room with two girls with a similar "problem", no teacher. Nice girls, very innocent. Eventually the rest of the class started catching up with our math progress and by the end of the school year we were let out of the cage. It was a fond memory, I am not bitter about it, still remember some of the gags. I dont think i lost that much, my math interest was more of a natural force rather than whatever i did in a repetetive schoolbook. And maybe I gained some social skills instead? Just a little funny way of dealing with it
- fifilura 3y ago
  > Nice girls, very innocent. Haha, that came out a bit different that i meant to. I meant that we were all very innocent, just like 3 well behaved 11 year old kids.
- jjav 3y ago
  > Ha, when i was too far ahead (around 11yo), I got put in a separate room with two girls with a similar "problem", no teacher. I had the same experience in 1st-2nd grade (in foreign language class, not math). Three of us were deemed too advanced for the grade so the teacher sent us out to the playground unsupervised with instructions to speak in the foreign language and correct each other. I don't remember us speaking in that language too much but we played lots of games and it was fun.