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From: shankar@src.honeywell.COM (Son of Knuth)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student preparedness
Keywords: student segregation skipping grades
Message-ID: <13751@srcsip.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 19:43:15 GMT
References: <4956@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: shankar@haarlem.UUCP (Son of Knuth)
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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In article <4956@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> dykimber@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel Yaron Kimberg) writes:
>Look, no one's arguing that there aren't problems with this, and anyone who
>voluntarily skips 5 grades is either extremely naive, or just plain deserves
>whatever social difficulties they have.  The majority of people who skip
>grades, I suspect, skip two or fewer. 

The majority of skipped grades are at the elementary school level, and
the kids typically have minimal (if any) involvement in deciding whether
to skip a grade or not at this age.  Even if the kids were involved in
the decision, a 7 year old is hardly able to make a decent decision.