I am not one to look for offense, but I can't help wondering whether the tester just doesn't trust homeschoolers. Ugh.
We have a university's psychology clinic that we could use for the testing - not free, but not completely unaffordable either. Rather than making waves with the school/district, I may go that route.
That is not unheard of. Some homeschoolers (and others, truthfully) find that they obtain an evaluation that is more tailored to the information important to the family when they go outside. I've always tried to make my evals meaningful for the individual family and student, not only with reference to school, but to life as well, regardless of who writes my checks, but I know not every evaluator has the same perspective or means.
I will add, though, that there is rarely a reason to doubt the hard numbers obtained by any eval. Interpretation, of course, is another matter.
