Eleanor05 you are exactly right about someone previously paving the way if a school has it in place. I can tell you those were the exact words out of the princ. mouth when we met and said we would like a full grade accel. for our child and this is how we want it done, layed it ALL out to take away all the guess work for them, provided the IAS and referenced the state policies regarding this (even though we were private school and they could have said, that doesn't apply). Princ. is happily watching the success of DC and keeping tabs on how it pans out. No one wants to see it not work or else all bets will be off for others in the future. We've all heard it.... We can't accel. your child because one child 30 years ago was and it was a bad situation... blah, blah, blah. I was prepared for all that, but it never came to that. They were surprisingly eager to give it a go (easy to do when someone else told you how to go about it! HAHA!) but this was a first ever in the school, so it was a huge deal.
