In GT friendly states, what would GT kids of his IQ receive in pull out services? Just curious... Would anything change in the classroom? While I think he would do very well given his natural abilities, grade skipping is not something we are going to pursue given his emotional "youngness" related to the ADHD/Anxiety. Nor, do I think it is necessary in his case...
In our state, a child with those scores would qualify for a GT id, but that doesn't necessarily qualify him for any services. How's that for useful
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Our oldest skipped a grade but we, too, don't think that would be a good choice for our younger dd with ADD. Her district states very clearly that placement in GT or accelerated classes requires motivation, attention skills, and high achievement, so a GT id doesn't mean that you'll be in GT classes. We could push more for a 504, which may be the best route in your instance. We have a psychologist's letter with an ADD dx and an anxiety disorder dx that states the school should give her a 504. The school said no initially and we didn't push b/c we didn't know what to ask for at the time.
We, instead, implemented our own interventions that didn't require a lot of cooperation from the school except to overlook her chewing gum and drinking caffeinated tea in class, which they have. If they do not overlook those things in middle school next year, we'll revisit having them written into a 504. The fact that her grades went up dramatically and her math/reading teacher noticed enough of a change to send me an e-mail asking what I'd done to her should help in proving that she does better with those things.
In terms of pull-out, if one manages to get a 2e kid into those pull-outs (which we have with significant advocacy), what it looks like varies tremendously from school to school. In our neighborhood school, dd12 rec'd a once/week language arts enrichment pull-out and would have gotten the same for math in later grades (she was there in 2nd and earlier). So, it would amount to about two hours/week of math and/or reading pull-out. They worked on things like math detective workbooks, etc. In middle school, she goes to accelerated literacy and math classes everyday but these classes are "backfilled" as the GT teacher calls it so the level of instruction isn't always super high. Some of the teachers have done a good job differentiating for the variety of kids in their classes, others have not.
Dd10 is choiced to a higher achieving school with more GT options than our neighborhood school. She goes to the GT teacher's class for about 45 mins/day for reading in replacement of the regular 5th grade reading class. She does the rest of the language arts block in the regular classroom (spelling & writing). With some serious advocacy on my behalf, she is also taking her math class daily with the GT teacher. That amounts to another approx. 45 mins/day in replacement of the regular classroom math. That class is using the 6th grade curriculum instead of the 5th grade curriculum. This school has the most available for GT pull-outs of any elementary I know in our area plus the GT teacher is really bright herself.
