We had a similar argument with DS's K teacher last year. She knew he was reading but had marked him as "approaching the standard" on letter recognition A-Z because she only tested A-M the first semester. If you put kids at exceeding the standard in the beginning, there isn't a way to show the teacher made them grow... so she wouldn't do it. Never mind that she didn't actually make him grow, it looked like she did on paper.
I think this happened to us last year in public school. Regardless that DS was the top of the class, doing math and reading way ahead of others, the 1st grade teacher still marked him as "reaching the standard" in the first report card. In the last report card, she marked him as "exceeding the standard" in all areas.
