Interesting...so sorry to hear she was sick and that the tet was delayed, etc. Kinda crazy, right!?
I just had this "feeling" it didn't go well? Not sure why? But maybe it was just me? I've always been a bit worried b/c she's shy and quiet and very much an "internal processor" that maybe she wouldn't speak up enough?? But that is one good thing about private testing. It isn't going to the school unless I want it to!
It is kinda hard though b/c she needs a 133 to get into the program -- doesn't that seem quite high for a public school program which really amounts to maybe 2-3 hours per week of being pulled out? I just can't imagine...that seems tough...even under the best of circumstances?
Scores in the range from 115-130 are sometimes referred to as "bright" and sometimes as "mildly gifted" or "moderately gifted". 130(ish) is an often used cutoff for admission to GT programs, I think partly because it is a threshold for a common score-based definition of giftedness these days, and possibly because modern GT programs often suffer from a lack of funding to serve more children. Yes, roughly 1 in 50 or less is fairly rare compared to what you'd expect to see on average in a typical public school classroom; only one child in 2-3 classrooms would qualify. Still, out of the children left behind, the idea might be (hopefully) to at least provide some form of enrichment, and for those children there's a greater chance of in-classroom strategies actually working.
There are some GT programs with very low criteria for entry (I believe Cricket2 lives in an area with such programs) and they are not without their own problems, since they may increase the chance that, by orientation to the greatest common denominator, the programs will serve highly gifted children no better than ordinary classrooms. Remember that out of any slice of the gifted population, most scores will cluster at the lower part of the range. The ideal gifted program (or program for anyone) would involve perfectly individualized instruction, which almost never happens; barring that, the next best thing for a particular gifted child could well be a program where they did not feel out of their depth, but were as close to the gateway score(s) as possible.
