[Jewelry making - Article 00109] - Re: [Orchid] The Treasure's Trove

[Rebecca Ross Russell]

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    I'm only 17 and still in high school, but here's my take - I was
    started in kindergarten at age 4, my birthday is in December, less
    than two weeks from the cut off date in my town. However,  my
    parents decided to put me in early because I was already into
    everything (besides which I think they were probably quite happy to
    have me out of the house :-P )... 

    After kindergarten, some recommended that I be put in the
    "transitional" class between K and 1st grade. This was not a remedial
    class in any way, about a third of the kindergraten class went into
    it before 1st grade. They eventually decided not to, and its a
    wonderful thing for me - I would certainly have had to skip a grade
    otherwise. In first grade I was reading chapter books and writing
    poems that made my teacher call home and find out if I'd been
    plagiarizing. By sixth grade I was in algebra with 8th graders, and
    by 8th grade I was teaching myself geometry and doing independent
    things in every one of my classes. I ended up at a boarding school
    because the public schools just couldn't keep up. I've always been
    younger than the people around me, but because I grew up with them
    there has never been any social difference. I think that there are
    many situations where a child would not only benefit from being
    skipped, but actually suffer from being left behind - I was often
    ready to shoot myself from boredom even being a year ahead, I don't
    even want to think about what would have happened otherwise. While
    it is true that there might be some social differences, I would
    contend that those children are likely to have similar or worse
    social problems with kids of their own age but lesser intellectual
    ability - I've never had any social problems with people as smart as
    I was, it was always people who felt intimidated by ability. That
    leaves a kid in the position of either becoming the object of torment
    for being ahead or hiding their intelligence, neither of which seems
    like a good option to me. Also, on a slightly more biased note, if
    you give a kid the chance to really stretch themselves academically
    in high school, it opens up tons of other possibilities - if I didn't
    feel that I already had an extremely strong academic foundation,
    there's no way I'd be OK with going to art school to pursue other
    passions (which is indeed my plan). Just my 2 cents. 

B'Shalom,
Bekka

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