Welcome!
It looks like you've done due diligence in researching your State laws, etc. Basic advocacy info, meeting prep, school fit info
here (but you may have already seen that post).
My thoughts for going forward and helping your daughter gain placement in the appropriate summer class:
1. At this point, proof of achievement may be more useful than an IQ test per se. For example, do you have a list of books your child has read, or can you create one? Be prepared in case the powers-that-be wish to have a small interview with your child... for example, they may want to surprise her by asking her to read to them, without preparation, a page of one of the books from the reading list you provide.
2. To speak to her social readiness, would you be able to get a brief letter of recommendation from any non-relative adult, such as a ballet teacher, swim instructor, play group supervisor, church youth leader, etc?
3. Understanding that "acceleration" may be a bad word... possibly it is so simply because the district does not have a strong background in acceleration such as that provided by research of the
acceleration institute... and the tool called
Iowa Acceleration Scale (which helps place all pertinent discussion points on the table to assess a child for readiness to accelerate).
4. At some point, whether now or later, you may need to acquaint the district with the fact that children need
both:
- appropriate academic/intellectual challenge
- academic/intellectual peers
Gifted children need both of these things as well... it just takes a bit more effort to arrange for providing to meet these needs.
5. Lastly, there may be some teachers to whom you could mention the Davidson
Educators Guild (your husband may also wish to join).
