Thanks, guys.
At the moment it's not really about my son, as we still have a couple years before high school, but if they do away with the college courses, it will be eventually.
I didn't mean that my son's scores would affect the principal's review all by himself -- but if enough higher-scoring kids lose their "year's growth", the cumulative effect might.
We can't really threaten to leave the district, because this is the best district around and it's the one everybody wants to get into. Which is one of the reasons it's starting to cost them more to do the college courses. Catch-22.
I'm afraid I don't have the information I need there, polarbear, because we just haven't gotten that far along yet. DS is 10, doing mostly middle school this year from his 5th-grade perch, going into 7th next year.
We'll just have to see what happens.
