Our high stakes test are graded 1-5....3 is proficient, 4 and five are the best scores. When I was advocating for math acelleration for my ds earlier this year I was getting really frustrated. In my back pocket I kept a little zinger that I never used but I always knew I could if I had to.
My zinger if we hadn't come to an agreement about his education was that I would take my gifted child and his high stakes testing at least 4s if not 5s possibly even perfect scores and go back to his home school (he is in a school of choice program for the Spanish dual language). Knowing how important his scores are I knew I had the leverage.
Luckily I didn't have to pull that out and use it.
