An old topic, but I’ve been away from the forums for a long time (real busy now). I was wondering about being ahead academically like this for elementary/middle/high school and whether it helps in life/college overall?
Reason is because if your kid already knows the stuff, will his/her brain not try to learn as much and they develop a sense of over confidence?
…Or, did they already go through that process learning it the first time so nothing is really loss?
Reason is because once you get to probably late high school and college, it’s pretty much impossible now to be ahead of the class (at least in math/science).
When I was young, I took spanish, did advanced math before any of the school stuff and did well and all that and went off to UC engineering and graduated (not great GPA, but that was probably me goofing off), but does the above formula actually hurt you in trying to “think” or “learn” as much since you already know what they are teaching?
I guess the main question is does it help more to have a limited amount of time to learn something and keep reinforcing that yearly rather than try to be ahead and just not learn in school…
