Opinions wanted. Infant primary or primary junior for educationally advanced kid?

[Athena404]

There is a lovely little school near me I'm thinking of sending my child to. Trouble is it's just an infant primary (ie only until year 2). I'm not sure if this will cause an issue as recently his Paediatrician assessed him as being 2 years educationally advanced from his corrected age which would mean 3 school years. There is a primary junior close but it definitely doesn't seem as good or nice. But I don't know if that would be better for him. Has anyone gone through this before? What would you suggest?

My son was under paediatric care almost from birth but comments about his advanced language skills etc simply washed over me.

mrz is your ds in his twenties? Ds is 27, I think we worried less and demanded a lot less. I can't imagine going into school back then and demanding that they made extra accommodations because he was bored etc. He seemed to have a lot of time in school pursuing his own interests and that was fine because it developed his love of learning for himself and he still does that today.

Does any sane parent really desperately want an outlier?

The OP has asked for opinions but hasn't provided any useful information in order that posters can make informed judgements so I'm really not sure of her motivation

It's exactly like her other thread Mrz. She posts with really sketchy information then never answers anyone's questions asking for clarification, then finds something to get in a huff about and buggers off!

Does any sane parent really desperately want an outlier?
Gawd no. But if you think you've got one you try to do your best by them. I've known enough able and very frustrated kids, and I've been one myself, so if there's anything we could do to minimse the risk it was worth a thought. Taking into account your child's traits and interests when choosing a school doesn't mean you're going to march into said school demanding anything.

I think being an outlier is hard. I wasn't, myself, and I got good grades through hard work. My Dsis was, and she was always in trouble for not listening and in her own world. She admitted later to me, that she couldn't see the point of listening to the teacher when it's all written on the text books. What made it worse was when annoyed teacher asked her a question, she was always able to answer, while she appeared to be not listening. She had hard time until uni.
I don't think my ds is as gifted as she is, but still, it's always scary and difficult as a parent, since I don't know what it feels like to be an outlier, and way he thinks is totally different from us, normal parents.

I probably was what you call an outlier as I only spent two terms in reception then moved to the juniors (very small school with four year groups in one class). I never felt any different although I was obviously doing harder word but it just seemed normal and I was never bored.

i knew my dd was good at many things but never felt she was exceptionally gifted.
because it was the closest school she attended an elementary with an open concept (all classrooms opened to the staffed library). all classroom doors were open and children did meander from one class to another (within reason).
she was very self directed early on and regularly took herself and her assignments to the library. occasionally listened in on another teachers lesson.

by the time she was in high school she was going into school in the am, handing in assignments, getting new assignments and doing her work from the comfort of her bedroom (her attendance was reasonable, she liked to socialize, but was performing a sport at a very high level and away most Fridays) as well as maintaining excellent grades.
uni experience was similar with the same comment about professors and books ;).
this village school was the worse rated of the schools available (people disliked the open plan), and the high school was rated one of the poorest in the province.
i'm glad she went to a small school that accommodated her unique learning style and supported her without too many questions.
she had scored in the top 10% of the province and graduated uni with distinction.

My son who is just going into year 1 has been noted as having HLP in terms of maths/reading/science and also has some special needs (dcd/SPD/ possible ASD) so we straddle a very odd line with him.
He is rather driven in the subjects that he likes (the very experienced teacher suspected that he has an eidetic memory) and I dread what he will do this year as last year he managed to hack the computer system to research the function of the intestines (I don't think that was the subject he was supposed to be studying at the time).

I've just seen your post on other thread, OP.
Why not return to your own thread?

Ah I'm so glad curiosity go the better of me and decided to see what this disaster of a thread had become, but it's actually turned out positive and constructive. That's a first!