Re school and skipping grades. Anybody remember Alice Sue Claeys? When she won the US junior title in 1990, she was 14 years old and a college freshman carrying a full-time class load. The story was that her mom put her in correspondence courses instead of elementary school because she was training away from home much of the year from a really young age, and she zipped right through them. IIRC she did graduate from a regular high school.