Originally Posted by Irena
Originally Posted by Jtooit
I have heard of schools that are unwilling to test past the end of the year goal. In 1st grade the year end is 16 and 28 for 2nd grade. Is that a possibility? My school thankfully doesn't use that philosophy but I have heard of many of them doing just that.

Yes this is exactly what it looks like they are doing... DS's teacher actually said something like this when DS kept pestering her to test him so he could move up. It just gets demoralizing. He scored at 28 at the beginning of they year and it really looks like they want to keep him there all year - how is that progress frown


That stinks! At least when DD was stuck at 28 ,I knew it was her hand writing and they had tested her on the higher levels. They were willing to give her some extra help with the hand writing to move past the road block