I agree. We've dealt with this throughout DD's school career, btw. My school has even
fudged my DD's beginning-and-end-of-year scores to make them "look" better.
I know this because I'm a packrat and a 'documenter' and I have the originals.
My DD's fourth grade reading "pretest" was originally 97%, and her end of year was originally 89% (because she blew it off and was irritated by it). They INVERTED the two scores, no doubt because those scores raised red flags as they were. Yup. I have the dated originals, and I
know that she scored far better on their little "measures of learning" test, there,
before they "taught" her 4th grade reading. Pretty sure that wasn't reflecting very well on the school, so *VOILA*... now it does. Like magic. They did some similar shuffling with other scores, too. The problem has always been that the standard curriculum (even after three grade skips) isn't really "teaching" my child much of anything, year to year. So they have to fix that, see.
Er-- or fix how it LOOKS, anyway.
Oh well. This isn't really about the gifted ed or your child It's about bureaucratic nonsense. Now you know.
