I am surprised to see that some districts retest kids already admitted to GT programs.
When we moved to our new district they would not accept my ds's IQ scores at 99% (he was coming from a HG GT program) since those scores were 3 years old. The new district would not admit him to their GT program until he had new scores. I found this to be a double standard since the students already in that program aren't retested every 3 years. It didn't make much sense to me.
Thanks for your thoughts on my dd. I do think she will benefit from the pull out even though it's just more work. She does like to connect with other highly able students and needs some higher level learning.
I do have to stop worrying about the other students performance in the class. It's tough, though, since the teacher only seems to relate "classroom performance" to ability/GT, etc.
I've been reading some old threads on this board regarding the Cogat and what it measures. I'm really surprised and disappointed to see that it seems to have value in predicting future academic success. My ds is exceling in a HG GT program (for years now) and his Cogats never topped the 92%. I'm feeling concerned that my daughter's low scores on her Cogats might mean such low academic success.
From these older posts, it certainly seems that the Cogat is more highly regarded for accuracy than I thought. I guess I don't understand the discrepancies my children have between private IQ and Cogat....
