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Eek. I'm guessing MEA?

"If I let your child read at rest time, then I have to let all the kids read"
(GOD forbid kids read in school!)
"She can do the work,but better that she is bored now rather than when they run out of things to teach her in upper grades."
"She's not gifted, she is an exceptional test taker."
"We have lots of kids just like her, we challenge every student."

If you have "lots" of kids like mine, why is MINE the only one that seems to be having behavior problems?

We cant test to see if she is ready for first grade, there are no tests.

I was told this by a homeschool charter school.

"Giving your child different work isn't fair to the other kids."

"We just don't do grade-skipping in this district."

"We can't give him accelerated work in math because he needs work on social skills"

"We won't give him a test to see if he's ready for Algebra because only a teacher can make that determination. We can't take the word of his elementary school teachers either because they don't know what we teach in middle school"

"He can't know that already because we haven't taught it yet"

"We don't want to hurt his self-esteem by giving him harder work"

"What will we teach him next year if we accelerate him to 5th grade math now?" -- (school is K-5, DS is in 3rd)

Ouch!

"I don't care how "bright" she is, she needs to learn that sometimes you just have to do boring things."

"We have LOTS of VERY bright children" (heavily implying that my child is not one of them)

"We don't see it"

"You understand we can't do readers with her of course" (apparently "readers" = dirty word)

"The other children will do the extension work, but she isn't interested in that either"