Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Parenting and Advocacy How do you deal w/schools w/o appearing arrogant

As for testing....

In our state, MN, if you word the letter like this, you'll get testing....

"In our concern for our son's (NAME, grade, school, teacher) education we are requesting YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT NAME HERE to complete a comprehensive educational evaluation for our child to see if he qualifies for special education services."

Most districts will deny the first time claiming s/he's performing at expected level in the general curriculum. Ours did. So, we called for a conciliation meeting. I had the PACER (state parent special education training center) advocate conference call in and advocate for Mite. They tested and VOILA we got an IQ score and identification for SPED services.

Of course, having gotten all of that opened a whole new can of worms...chuckle!

Thanks to everyone who responded. I just got back for the dreaded meeting and was surprised that it only took 30 minutes. The principal still didn't understand why or what I wanted but she gave me almost all the information I wanted without knowing it. I explained to the teacher again why I decided to homeschool and that I didn't really care what grade level my son was doing as long as he was being challenged. I'm completely drained. I think that they are just happy to get rid of me. I'm happy to have finally made the decision I should have followed through on when my son was 3 - that's when we first started to think that homeschooling might be best. Hopefully I'll finally get some sleep now.

Thanks again