Originally Posted by ABQMom
She looked at his grades and said that she refused to reward his poor performance with the "privilege" of being tested for gifted. She did the whole head-pat thing with me and said, "Every parent here wants their kid to be gifted, but, let's face it, most aren't. And your son obviously isn't."
Once my son was old enough to take the College Board's SAT, (age 12) it helped my sidestep a lot of these uncomfortable sitautions. I just said - He took the SAT to try and test into his summer camp and scored a _______. He needs _______.
Once folks hear something that they can relate to as different, it got a little easier to ask for accomidations. Not really easy to get them, but much easier to ask.

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