While I absolutely agree with everything that Dude ( very apt analogy - especially as many of us have been forced to 'secretly train' our kids) wrote earlier, I will add that walking the superintendent through the Iowa Acceleration Scale and supplying some copies of the forms that we typed up ourselves ( why the forms are not sold is beyond me) is ultimately what clinched the deal on getting our DD accelerated.
As Dude noted earlier, on one level, testing will merely confirm what YOU already know but objectively verified results will help to start the dialogue to the school because you will not just be saying that you *think* that your DD is smart; you will have the data to back you up.
Our experience was that once we had the data the school did acknowledge her abilities ( she had also demonstrated above grade abilities to teachers by the time ) but then, predictably, the school raised the 'social issues' objection. I got the idea about the IOWA Acceleration Scale from this forum. It lays the emotions to side and focuses purely on the data in a very balanced way. Ymmv but it certainly worked for us.
