Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy Advocacy for subject acceleration

Does your school have a gifted specialist? if so, perhaps he or she can help advocate. If not, try to get as much data as you can that supports the change you want for your ds. Hoagies Gifted has a couple of articles on why acceleration is necessary as does DYS. When you go in to speak to the principal, have your folder with all the information: above-level test scores, IQ, research, etc, and ask he or she to do an Iowa Acceleration Scale with you. (They should be familiar with this, but by the sounds of it they may not be.)