from our school psychologist at our initial Gifted IEP meeting:
A full scale IQ of 154 on a WISC-III is pretty average for our district.
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from our then Gifted Ed Supervisor:
The state's gifted ed regulations are a bunch of gobbedly-goop that nobody really understands....
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It sounds like you expect your child's Gifted IEP to be individualized.
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From our then Director of Pupil Services at the Mediation hearing held to get the additional testing needed to create an appropriate plan:
"We'll come up with three names of school psychologists and you come up with the names of three school psychologists and we'll put the names in a hat and your son can pull the name out of the hat and we'll use that school psychologist to do the additional testing."
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That experience ended up taking me down a path of understanding the state regs about the education of gifted in public education in PA.
Had they simply offered a half-baked plan that I could kinda/sorta go along with, I'd have time for two or three hobbies.
