He did score above the cutoff (130) and the test was done by the school psychologist. Well, they told me that they don't allow any children in the gifted program who have behavior issues. They also said that there is a checklist of things the kids need to have other than high IQ including high leadership ability and high maturity/social skills to be included in the gifted program. They said that a socially/emotionally immature child like my son would not qualify for gifted programming because it is not determined by just IQ.
This seems just bizarre. Many gifted kids have what appears to be behavioral issues but are actually skills deficits. The district is not putting the kids' interests first if they do not recognize your son's giftedness.
