I hope the retesting does well, LAF! I have seen an awful lot of that HG/2E combo, where the kids know amazing things, but don't necessarily test well. Performance under a timed testing scenario may be really different than knowledge. As one example, I remember Ds's teacher calling me, mind-blown, because DS was the first kid she'd ever seen get 100% on the practice test for a province-wide assessment; his eventual scores on the real thing, however, were more in the B to C range... Or there's the 5 cases I know personally of kids who are HG on the WISC but flunked the CCAT(CoGAT).
So it can be really frustrating, can't it, when all the admin look at are the testing results, and you know there's so much missing there. I've had to let go of a lot - a LOT - of my own feelings about marks and academic performance. For your DS, it sounds like he may thrive at the HG school - but maybe that thriving won't always include stellar marks. If he could be challenged, excited, and enjoying his peers there, can you find ways to live with a potential gap between what he is learning and what he can show?
