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As far as I know, I was allowed to skip 7th grade math and science simply because my parents asked for it. If I recall correctly, it was a simple request. (I do
by swolchok 17y ago
As far as I know, I was allowed to skip 7th grade math and science simply because my parents asked for it. If I recall correctly, it was a simple request. (I don't know what led up to it exactly, but I didn't miss anything -- those classes were pre-algebra and (I think) earth science), which are redundant with earlier/later courses.)
- tokenadult 17y agoIt would be interesting to hear where and in what era that happened. Some school districts are very loath to permit grade skips. My personal case in childhood was quite unusual: I was grade-skipped, contrary to general school policy, even though neither I nor my parents asked for the skip, when it became apparent that my learning at that date was well beyond the school curriculum. My skip was from fifth grade (elementary school) to seventh grade (the beginning of junior high) so I never attended sixth grade. Since then, I have often pondered the insanity of dividing children into grades by age in the first place. http://learninfreedom.org/age_grading_bad.html http://learninfreedom.org/age_grading_bad.html
- swolchok 17y agoI won't spell it out here because I'd like to make any bad guys out there dig too, but it's not particularly hard to divine my approximate age and where I went to school by Googling.