CourtneyB,
At my sons' school they use the terms 'meet' and 'exceed' grade level on the report card. As I understand it, the terms have to do with the state's minimum requirements and the level that the class is being taught and tested. So if the teacher is testing counting to 10, your child meets the sate requirements if he can count to 10. That was all that was tested. However, if the teacher is teaching to 100, then your child exceeds the state requirements when he is tested on 100.
I hope that makes sense.
The report card gives you an idea of the level at which your child is being taught and you could use it as a starting point for a conversation with the teacher or principal.
This is how they do it at DS's school. I really wanted to cringe at all the 3s (meets requirements) because I knew they should be 3+s (exceeds requirements) on pretty much everything.
But for us, my focus was getting him comfortable with his grade skip, which happened just about the same time. And since he will be in the gifted pull out program, and this won't affect his GPA just yet, I'm ok with seeing 3s. Now, if he gets a 2, we'll have to have a chat.
