I'm stuck. Advocating (with not much hope tbh) for grade skip for DD. I have the psych report and recommendations, compiled a portfolio, and found lots of research supporting my points and hopefully countering their possible objections, except one. DD tests ahead, in some cases by several years, in all subjects except math, where she only tracks a little ahead. She had one recent math PAT test that showed she was stanine 7 for this year and stanine 6 for the next grade (so, just above average if she were skipped) but the teacher dismissed it as not very indicative (which makes we wonder why bother doing the testing!)
It's fast recall of the basic facts which is slowing her down (important I know, but boring) and not any issue at all with not understanding any concepts.
I'm sure I've seen somewhere some research indicating you should align to gifted children's strengths rather than hold them back to any relative weakness but I must be using dumb search terms because can't find anything along those lines.
Is there any such thing? I think I found some sort of reference to getting points on the IAS for scoring 50%+ on above-level testing??
Help, ready to give up and go back to bed and just stay there cos I'm chicken
