Gifted schools sure sound nice on paper, but sometimes the stories from the inside aren't all we imagine. That said, I wouldn't rush right out and mortgage the house or anything. It could be an option, but she might also do quite well in her existing school. She will need some school support to acknowledge her extreme scores, but it can be done. It would be nice to have a feel for other highly gifted children in the school. Sometimes the peers around her are more important than anything the teacher may or may not do. Of course in the ideal world, all of those pieces fall nicely into place.
Thanks Dottie -I love this last sentence! Yes, it would be ideal for all of the pieces to fall in place and I would guess that for most families it's a matter of determining which pieces are most important for the particular child and then doing the best possible.
Ideally, we would love to stay at our current school and I'm interested to meet with them and find out what type of accomodations they are willing/able to make. Visiting some other schools would give us a much better understanding of options & specialized programing.
Have you shared the report with the school yet? I think a heart to heart meeting with someone in charge is probably a good next step. The fact that you have an administrator willing to sit down with you is very promising.
Do you have any advice on how should I prepare for this meeting? I don't know enough about what might be best for DD and the school seems to be in the very initial stages of providing increased differentiation. In other words - they don't have a plan in place and are going working on developing this program.
Thanks again for yoru feedback and thank you for providing the FSIQ. I suppose the tester didn't provide it due to the lower PSI. It's nice to know though!
