My dh feels they just don't want to grade skip one b/c then they will have the headache of dealing with more parents who want one and the testing/meetings etc that would come with that. At the end of the day, that is their job and shouldn't hinder what is best for my dd.
That's certainly a reasonable thought as to why they are dragging feet here. Perhaps if you paid for outside IQ testing they might be more willing (?). I think that our school system didn't worry a ton about other parents coming and saying that our dd was skipped so why wasn't theirs b/c we had a ton of data including IQ scores that most of the other kids didn't have. It was easier to say that this one child had different needs and more data to support it. I wonder if they worry that all parents with kids who score well on one achievement test will start beating down the doors asking for grade skips. Of course, I can't imagine doing that if it wasn't going to work out well for my kid!
