In all seriousness, I will be watching this thread closely, because this looks like our year to really get ourselves together and actually advocate for real. We have the....in some ways fortunate (???) situation of a child who is very sweet and endearing but who WILL cry and become despairing over school if it is not working for him. He is also very outgoing and does not conceal his abilities. Furthermore, he had contact with one of the teachers on his grade team over the summer (she was a counselor at his camp) and she already appears to be familiar with his abilities ("Ah...DSname...yup, we all know about YOU!" was what I heard at back to school.) I think this is something I can leverage a little better than other situations.
