Originally Posted by Iucounu
It's this worry about a discrepancy that is too often used as a justification against enrichment or even acceleration. One way in which this surfaced in our situation was when the assistant principal stated that we shouldn't let DS get ahead of his "peers", because then what would the school do when he needed more math than the fifth grade program could supply? (He was at that point already past what I expect the normal fifth grade classroom provides, and of course the real answer is to fix the program to provide what a student needs, or allow acceleration.)

Sure, but if the solution is to fix the program or allow acceleration, then it becomes the principal's problem. Whereas, if your child is simply held back, then it's not his problem.