Originally Posted by slammie
the prinicipal's concern is that when a child is accelerated, the child needs to be reported as that grade level as far as state reporting goes.

I would double-check with the principal to be sure your husband understood correctly - it's possible that may happen (or may be your principal's understanding of what needs to be done), but it doesn't happen in our school district for subject acceleration - students still take the grade level state tests for the grade they are enrolled in.

If your dd does have to take the state tests in the upper level grade for the subject she's accelerated into, I wouldn't worry about it at all - she'll be fine. State tests almost universally seem to only test for grade-level curriculum benchmarks, and at least here, they don't really carry a lot of weight... and the weight they do carry can most likely be easily advocated around if you ran into a situation where your dd didn't do well and it's due to the grade level issue.

polarbear