There's been something on my mind for the past little while that I've wanted to blog about. I think the best way to introduce it is to start at the beginning. When I was 7, I went straight from 1st grade to 3rd grade with only a summer in between. I skipped 2nd grade entirely. It wasn't really that uncommon in our district, come to think of it. I remember off the top of my head that Jessame, Dani, Leslie, Brooke, Mandy, Becca, and Ishmaal also skipped a grade. Possibly other kids as well. My mom and at least one of her siblings did, too. When there's no gifted and talented program, and not even Accelerated Reader at your school, that's kind of what you have to do to keep the smart kids from getting bored out of their minds. I think the possibility of me skipping a grade had been open for a while. I was an early reader and loved to learn about pretty much everything. But I feel like what had cemented it was what I brought for show and tell one day in 1st grade. Lesl