Originally Posted by ultramarina
[quote]Our district's G/T magnet school also re-tests achievement and ability as kids progress through school to re-qualify the children, and I've known children who were admitted in kindergarten and later sent elsewhere because the earlier scores didn't hold up and their teachers felt they were not properly placed in the program.[/quote
sorry to go OT, but this is so interesting to me. I didn't think there were districts out there that dared to do this. How do the parents react if a child is disqualified after qualifying initially?

(My DD also attends a gifted magnet. AFAIK, her half-hour IQ test at 6 will continue to qualify her for GT programs through high school and she will never be retested. I feel lucky she got in, and at the same time I really do wonder how accurate it all is. Mind you, DD is clearly gifted/high achieving, but I also know kids who qualified who seem to be right at the same level as kids who didn't. Her school is generally all kids over 130--they do make some exceptions for kids who are disadvantaged--but there is a very wide range of abilities still, which is interesting.)

The state we reside in currently does this with their GT program (what little of it there is)...test at 2nd to start for 3rd, must retest every 3 years for both IQ(RIAS is used)and Achievement (Brief WJ) to continue or at certain bench marks if they have entered the district inbetween stages of normal testing ages.