Good for you! We are in the same boat as you only a few steps ahead. We sorta beat around the bush back in fall conferences to see how the teacher felt about accel. and we got the impression she wasn't versed about the research etc. so we decided to charge forward and met with the prinicipal directly and presented the reserach, the iowa accel. scale (which she wasn't familiar with. we are in a private school and it hasn't been done before, at least while she has been there and doubtfully before either.) We presented a porfolio and provided her with a copy and left the book for her to read (and beleieve it or not we got an answer before we left.) We too, dropped the bomb that we would be leaving if it was not an option but they were surprisingly really willing to work with us and excited about the opportunity to give this a whirl. We have had many many meetings with updates and planning and more and more testing (which i don't think is necessaryas we already have qualifying tests but.... they wanted and we requested above grade level testing to see where we stand) but they are following the IAS to a tee to set the groundwork for any future people that may come asking for the same for their child. they want to be prepared for those that ask and shouldn't really be. I informed them that research shows that they most likely won't have a flood of people asking but... knowing how some of the parents there are "entitled" so to say, SOME will surely unjustly be asking for the same. We presented it as, if many do and the child qualifies and really SHOULD and would benefit from it, then consider that a good problem! You don't want people leaving because they are too smart to be accomodated but you should be able to weed out those that don't meet the requirements too. Well, good luck to you!
