Our school claims they can't test on the books at the middle school, because they didn't purchase the test for both schools. Censorship or truth, I don't really know. There ARE enough other options for DS to meet his goal, so for now he plays the game. I only REALLY have a problem when they replace "reading" with "AR", and "book" with "AR book" (*). So far though they've let DS slide once he meets his goal. DD11 though likes to follow rules, and sticks to the actual AR books. She hasn't faced many of the "problems" that DS has though.
* Clarification....the teachers will generally say things like "Let's take out our AR books" for free reading time, and give homework to "read your AR book", rather than just require reading in general.
Sometimes I get a little perturbed about the lack of services for GT at our school, you just gave me some reasons to be thankful about what is available in our school! Some of these things seem to be dependent upon the teacher, I hope things keep going the way they did last school year.
