My school board did similar—I did the full-time gifted class, my brother did the one day a week.
I also got accelerated to a rather extreme degree—I skipped 3 grades, and started highschool at age 10. It was a mixed blessing, frankly—it got me past the “kids are pure evil” years, and turned me from the obnoxiously nerdy kid into a curiousity, which got me picked on a lot less. The material didn’t get much more interesting—once you catch up, it’s being taught at the same pace. And on the downside, it made me a lot more awkward in highschool years than I probably would have been otherwise, because the age gap meant that the usual diversions of dating and drinking didn’t open up for me until years after they had for everyone else(and when everyone else is years more experienced than you, self-consciousness sets in with dating, and slows you down even further—I didn’t even ask a girl out until I was about 18-19).
My school board did similar—I did the full-time gifted class, my brother did the one day a week.
I also got accelerated to a rather extreme degree—I skipped 3 grades, and started highschool at age 10. It was a mixed blessing, frankly—it got me past the “kids are pure evil” years, and turned me from the obnoxiously nerdy kid into a curiousity, which got me picked on a lot less. The material didn’t get much more interesting—once you catch up, it’s being taught at the same pace. And on the downside, it made me a lot more awkward in highschool years than I probably would have been otherwise, because the age gap meant that the usual diversions of dating and drinking didn’t open up for me until years after they had for everyone else(and when everyone else is years more experienced than you, self-consciousness sets in with dating, and slows you down even further—I didn’t even ask a girl out until I was about 18-19).