Welcome Kimck!
I'm so glad you are here. I think your insight into your son's path is very deep and sounds likely. My son also "hated baby books" and didn't want anything to do with "baby reading" until he went through it with his school-mates. I jokining would say to the children's librarian "Do you have any early readers on Poision or Weapons?" I also was able to be in Gifted Denial due to his "age-level"reading - never mind that he wanted to listen to "Phantom Tollbooth" or "Harry Potter" as a preschooler! Being intensly interested in the world looked "normal" to me - LOL!
I too have been in meeting were the teachers and school specialists shake their heads about how unreliable those silly IQ scores are. I'm looking forward to sharing an understanding of "levels of giftedness" so that they can finally understand their observations AND the IQ scores together.
Glad you found us,
Trinity
Another thought on the reading is she is just waiting until she had the skills to read what she WANTS to read. My son could sound out words (painfully) and had pre-literacy skills (letters, sounds) well before kindergarten. He wasn't a true reader before kindergarten. He was doing other stuff before kindy that now hind sight were signs of giftedness But because he was not a true reader we never really thought of him as gifted. He was just our kid - which we assumed was a normal kid. Normal preschoolers want you research chrysalis with them for hours on end, etc right?
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Anyway - we have the same issue with our school district. They give these tests and then teachers have their own agenda. I have heard teachers at our school openly criticizing them at meetings and saying they mean nothing, etc. I'm trying to prepare something to say to our conferences in a couple weeks. I'd love to homeschool too, but my husband is not there yet. Anyway - I'm still new at this too and have no particular advice, but good luck! Misery loves company right?
