My ds's public school broke all the meeting rules and filled the thing out themselves -- so it said what they wanted it to say, with no parental input.
Whoooa!
Hold on just a minute!!! There was suppose to be parental input? You mean the school was supposed to do something other than fill out the IAS themselves??? We were never made a part of the process of filling out the IAS. At the acceleration meeting, after the school had already made their recommendation, they mentioned that DS's score on the IAS was a 1.5? I'm now interpreting that to mean half way between an excellent and a good candidate, but they never gave us a total score or showed us the breakdown of points. And when we went back six months later for another acceleration meeting, I politely asked the school what his out-of-level testing scores were like. They looked at me blankly and said, "Out of level testing?"
<grumble, grumble, grumble>
Okay, I'll just let it go. It is water under the bridge now!
(but it still makes me question how thorough DS's school was then, and how carefully I have to question them in the future.)
'Course they might actually give themselves higher scores than the pathetic ones I gave them on my own assessment,
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Yea, Dottie!!
