Nice article. Personally I like Uni's current policy of each incoming class being a half and half mix between sixth graders and seventh graders. I bet that within each class, if you just look at how each student performs behaviorally and academically, you wouldn't be able to tell who skipped a grade and who didn't.

I skipped a grade when I came to Uni and I don't feel that I would be any more prepared had I come a year later.