Echoing what others have said... anytime anyone tells me, "It's against our policy," the first thing I want to do is see the policy. Because:
- "It's against our policy" is frequently incorrect... the person may have an imperfect understanding of what the policy says, or they may be lying to avoid further discussion.
- Often a policy not only says what they won't do, it also says what they will, so reading it is the only place to discover those alternatives.
And then, there are more... complicated situations, like the one we found ourselves in, where what the policies say and what actually happens are totally different things. In our case, a full-year acceleration was the goal. We have a district policy that outlines the process for full-year acceleration, so we invoked that... and nobody in the school system would participate, no matter how hard we tried. Then we heard that a family had pulled their child, homeschooled a year ahead, and re-enrolled their child in school with the grade skip accomplished. This flies in the face of a written policy that says they'll only accept transfer students at those grade levels at the grade that's appropriate for their age... yet the child was accepted, no questions asked. We followed their plan.
