Originally Posted by NikiHarp
Val-I went through a passage with him a couple of days ago. We are doing some history study on our own. We actually read the passage on Monday and I asked him the questions yesterday. He answered them correctly and more thoroughly than I would have expected. This is also a topic he has never been exposed to before, so there's no prior knowledge of the subject.

I'm guessing he didn't have brilliant answers on his second grade assessment. I'm not sure how brilliant you can be when answering questions from a 6 sentence reading passage about a fictional grasshopper wink

I'm not remotely concerned about his reading comprehension. I'm concerned that this teacher has make up her mind about DS and she'll never see the dysgraphia.

I haven't asked them for a full eval yet. Primarily because I don't trust them. This entire team has already decided that there's not an issue. The school psychologist made it pretty clear that he wouldn't receive spec ed services when we gave her our outside eval. How do you battle the foregone conclusions?

Is it because he is not performing below grade level yet? I gave this article to the spec. ed director and the principal before even putting in a request to evaluate DD. http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/3/3/2158244013505855 I did this hoping that they would evaluate her with an open mind. Even though they seem to have already made up their mind, I would send them this article, and then put in a request for a formal eval naming your specific concerns. They should come back with a list of specific tests that you can either approve or argue about.
I see your concern though....the last school DD was in was incompetent and I knew it was pointless to even bother with them and that if I did I would have to get the spec. ed director involved in the process. Have you tried talking to him/her? I would try that, and send him/her this link.