Lol Thanks Grinity! You are my second PUSH today. His GT writing teacher has 3 grown up GT kids of her own ranging from hg to pg. She told me to get on with it already today. Just what I needed to hear. She is one of his letters of recommendation, Yay!
Our district has the kids in the gt program using computers from 8 or 9 onward. He has very little handwritten work in any subject other than Math. I do have typed papers that have been graded. I have papers first to last draft with handwritten comments by him and the teacher on all of the drafts. He usually needs minimal revisions and his teachers handwritten comments do reflect that. I hope that is sufficient. I suppose I could have him write a paper by hand, too. His papers are normally at least 10 pages in length on the computer. It would be an unpleasantly long task for him to write by hand. My dh (the math whiz in the house) is going to give him a higher level math worksheet this weekend. They didn't do any acceleration in Math until last year. He got back to back skips in Math.
If all else fails, I can go through with the testing. My dh & I have a meeting with the gt psychologist in a few weeks to talk about possible testing. It's not off the table to consider testing. I can't imagine DYS would not at least ask for more information based on the achievement scores from ACT & Explore.
Thanks Again! I can feel the motivation and courage creeping up:)
Jtooit
