Skip A Grade? Start Kindergarten Early?

Why it’s not so easy & why it should be. Part 1

Over time I’ve discovered I do best when there is some structure for interviews. When I’m asked to present whatever I want or what I’m passionate about, I don’t know where to begin. After all, I don’t know what an audience wants until they tell me what they want. Even an interviewer doesn’t know what I know — so they might not ask that specific question. But whatever made them want to interview me is enough to get us started. I get to segue off what they ask by adding in something they didn’t know at all!

For that reason, I’m using parts of an article from NPR that was published in 2015 so I can segue off what Owen Phillips, the writer of the article, wrote about a favorite topic of mine. Here’s the link to the article: Skip a Grade Early Works, But is Hard to Implement. Why? I go in order of the entire article but skip and combine some items as it makes sense to do so. Let me know if you’d like to send me fodder like this and have me use more articles in this way for my posts. Because blogs are supposed to be fairly short, this is Part 1.

Here’s how the Phillips article starts:

On the first day of school, perhaps the only person more discussed than the “new kid” is the “new kid who skipped a grade.”