<p>My daughter did a pseudo repeat. She repeated 11th but only to correct for previous acceleration. She’s still one of the you her ones in her grade and will graduate at 17 but I wouldn’t have done it any other way. She’s still in classes with kids older than she but it’s okay. She won’t run out of courses to take. She was fine socially when she was two to three years younger and was in many ways more mature than the 17 and 18 year olds in her classes last year but I wanted her to go to college at a normal age. For the first time since second grade the majority of her friends were born within 12 months of her. For most of her life, it won’t matter how old her friends are, but at 16 it’s made her life a little easier. My son did not repeat and I wish he would have. </p>
<p>I don’t think many kids even know that she repeated 11th grade. Most know that she’s not taking the standard junior year AP track but I doubt she’s told them that it’s because she already did it. No one would guess, like I said, because she’s still a bit young. I’ve never even thought to ask her if there are other repeaters. It’s just not something that comes up.</p>