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Why Academic Acceleration Can Rob Developmental Milestones

I skipped my senior year of high school and went straight to college but I missed prom and graduation and normal teenage experiences and sometimes I wonder if being academically ahead was worth being socially behind forever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intellectual acceleration has sacrificed age-appropriate social and emotional experiences.

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