Geo, it's just astonishing.
You know what else astonishes me? That you got them to use a discrepancy model. I've never gotten any traction that way, despite many oddities.
Testing may increasingly look like using the SAT writing test format, or evaluating against some kind of local program standards, rather than things like TOWL (where she's maxed the test). You know what a good essay looks like, and I think you will have to trust yourself to see the point where something is askew if that happens again. You'll see the stress level go up, you'll see resistance go up, all the old things. Don't borrow trouble about this yet!
Kudos to you and DD in the meantime.
