It is looking as though we are going to send our DD5 to public half day (actually only 2.5 hr) kindergarten this year. As I mentioned, we have achievement testing done where she hit the ceilings and was operating at least on a third grade level during preschool, yet our school says that there will be "many kids like her" in her class. She is also VERY extroverted, highly excitable, and can appear ADHD like on the surface. They saw test scores, with her language /reading being four standard deviations from the mean, but acted as if that would be common at their public school. I haven't met a child like her in this community. I am not saying they don't exist, I am sure they do, but I also don't picture a class teeming with kids like her. The good thing is she loves everyone and is playful and creative and social. She (this is the only place I can say this and not prepare to be stoned) brings herself down to her playmates level and in pre-k also (another hot phrase coming) dumbed herself down there and I don't want her to do that in K. Maybe I worry too much, who knows. I am just worried they won't see who she really is and she won't show it...I gave them some numbers but they didn't know what to do with them. We do have an IQ test from when she was three but that doesn't hold that much weight. UGH. They don't have any gifted programming until second grade or third when they have told me she will most likely "even out" and be at a typical level. I am not looking for a grade skip, though she could easily whiz through first in no time (her handwriting is even good), because I worry about her socially, but I do want them to give her appropriate levels of work. I just don't know what to do next. I apologize for circling over this so many times, for some reason the whole issue makes my head spin.
Last edited by TwinkleToes; 07/14/11 04:28 AM.
