We had something similar happen last year when DS was in second grade. We starting advocating for subject acceleration in math and went over the teacher's head in early spring. He had never had an "at grade level" score in math (we have below, at and above grade level on our report cards) and at the end of the year he had a "at grade level" for addition and subtraction math facts of all things. It was funny, because I had all his math fact tests at home which were perfect, with maybe 2 errors over the entire year. Even more amusing was that he had just been given the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade end of year math tests by the district and nailed the 3rd and 4th and tested at about 70 percent on the 5th (hence he is now in 5th grade math).
Since it was the end of the year, and we had received the acceleration, we decided not to pursue it. We decided that the possible reasons were:
1. retaliation- albeit we think it was subconscious
2. cluelessness - this teacher always went on and on about how DS wasn't the "fastest" in the class at math facts
3. mistaken identity- there was another child in the class with his same first name and my DS says she always was mixing up their papers. . .
It wouldn't have been so amusing if the school had denied our request for acceleration. If I was in your position I would schedule a conference and then at that conference demand (but in a very nice, asking kind of way) that they test him on end of year materials and see what he knows. If you can get them to agree that he should be working at the appropriate level, you can sometimes trap them into agreeing to the testing (it worked for us).
Good luck, let us know how it goes.
Last edited by Catalana; 02/03/11 07:34 AM.