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Comment by tims33

7 months ago

Agree. Social and emotional development is a real thing. I think most students (especially boys) are better off being more challenged in their age-appropriate grade-level than skipping.

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bobfromsf  7 months ago

This is not true based on research done on kids who were accelerated as far as they needed to.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.4219/jeg-2006-247

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