We did it to answer the "is he what we think he is" or "how unusual is he". And it changed our decision making - we moved to get him into a more appropriate school. And it validated the things we were doing while others said your pushing him or my favorite - why are they trying so hard to make him a geek.
But we needed the data, we needed the validation.
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Ours was a similar experience, but in our case, we already knew who our DD was, but the school needed cluing in that we weren't just "those parents." In the meetings prior to her test results coming in, I kept using the phrase, "If she is who we think she is, then..." Because of course, we knew.
But since it was the school that needed the test results, not us, it was the school that had to pay for it. This doesn't always work in a state without some kind of G/T mandate, though.
