Thank you Rustico, I know you were talking with your experience in mind. In principal I agree with your opinions you have expressed in the previous post. It seems that your son’s school has great teachers/staff quite willing to help kids achieve their potential, and stimulating kids that are more advanced too, rather than make them bored and disinterested. For us, since we have to move around it’s more difficult to choose – too many choices!!! and you don’t really know how good a school is for your kid until after the fact. If we’d already own a place somewhere we’d make do, too, unless major problems/unhappiness. But since we have to choose a place…

With children of different personalities…it must be really tough choice.

About moving a child up…as you realize, it depends… If the child is quite hungry to excel, quite competitive – I think in the long run he would be better off skipping one grade, especially if he will end up doing graduate studies. But keeping him in the same school while doing that might accentuate the inherent social problems. It might be better off at a new school at the begining of Middle school (i.e. skip the last elementary year – don’t know if he’s still in elementary or not)…so his “skipping” is not sticking out much. It can be very problematic still seeing his classmates he left behind, and the new ones maybe being mean to him.