Our lovely school has gone kind of crazy this year. They're doing several questionable things, including one that is getting them sued on freedom of speech grounds, but the next one is going to be a problem for us in a few years. They're having a meeting on Tuesday (March 5) to discuss cutting back on how many courses they will pay for, for high schoolers taking college courses. They want to eliminate college course funding for those students who have enough credits already -- I'm not sure if that means "in that subject" or all together.
With DS's acceleration in math, he will likely run up against this in high school.
One thing I am thinking about bringing up is that Colorado just passed a law which bases a principal's job review partially on the academic growth of the students. From experience, I know that when DS was not accelerated in math, he had (slight) negative growth on the CSAPs (now TCAPs). If the kids who require acceleration, and therefore college courses in HS, are not allowed to take them, they will stagnate and the principal's review will suffer. That ought to hit them where it hurts!
Any other ideas for what to say at the school board meeting? Of course, one of the things that the school board is messing up lately is that it's very difficult to speak at a meeting, so I'm not sure I'll get to say anything, but we'll see.
