The roller coaster continues. So, after hearing from the principal and DS's teacher that he was moving to a newly formed reading group, DS told me that he'd only met the teacher once and that he'd only be going to her twice a week.

Seems odd, right? This is his reading group, but while all the other kids have a reading block daily, he gets reading only 2x per week. So, stop by and introduce myself to his new reading teacher. Get into a conversation with her and find out that they assessed him at a Level 12, which is essentially somewhere in 1st grade reading. However, I KNOW all the books he read this summer and having run some of the books by DS7's first grade teacher, I also know the books are all 2nd grade level.

So, now what? I'm thinking that I should ask for a meeting with the school's reading specialist to request that she redo his assessment (his K teacher had said that either she or the reading specialist would do it and I don't know who ran the first assessment). DS told his new reading teacher that he was reading Flat Stanley, but it didn't seem to spark at all with her that his reading level placement doesn't come close to matching that series of books (and he's on his 3rd one in the series).

Have any of you run across a potential underassessment like this? I'm flabbergasted.