I'm with the others-- it's ridiculous, and even a cursory examination of the lexile scoring of any series of well-known works shows this in a hurry.
I refused to submit my DD to "lexile" assessments after the thing stupidly proposed that my then 6yo DD should be reading...
Tess of the D'Ubervilles, Madame Bovary... etc.
(laughably, to be sure)
Yeah. I don't think so.
She reads what she likes, and she has since she learned. The last I tracked her reading was when she was about seven, but she was regularly reading 500-1500 pages a month-- all of it above grade level. She doesn't seem to have any trouble now that she's taking AP Literature as a 13yo, by the way (unlike some of her conventionally-aged but still bright classmates, I might add).
I like the technique of asking the teacher "what should I do with this information? I need help with this."
That's exactly what I did, too-- and the teacher laughed WITH ME over just how stupid this kind of thing is when applied to HG+ children who are avid readers.
