Courtney,

Our school district uses the DASII for gifted testing. The GCA is the deciding factor on whether or not they get in. 130 is the cut-off score they are looking for, so your son would be labeled as gifted in our district and qualified for the programs. Have you given your new district copies of his testing from previous district? What did they say? Even if they recognize him as gifted though, there may not be a requirement for an education plan based on giftedness alone.

Wow MAMom,
That's a great path that your school took, but I don't reccomend this as a general approach. Basically, yes, the schools who 'get it' don't need an IQ test to make placement decisions, but most schools couldn't make sense of that question - and yet, when they really see the numbers and reccomendations - very often they will say: 'Oh, well yes, this is different.'

Remember that 2/3 of gifted kid fall right near that boundry line, and are pretty ok with 'enrichment.' It is easy for schools to forget that 66% doesn't equal 100% - until somthing, IQ scores, SAT scores, or the child herself causes them to 'wake up.'

But yes, there are wonderful schools that don't need IQ scores. So glad you are at one of them!

Love and More Love,
Grinity

Thanks for that info! I have the papers and keep meaning to bring them to the principal but keep forgetting. I think Monday I will make it a point to do so after dropping him off at class.