Not sure where you are in PA, but even though PA law may say that the school needs to consider more than the IQ testing, many districts around here (SE PA) do not. It seems to happen in districts where there are a lot of gifted kids (many more than the 2% or so that a FSIQ 130+ would yield on a national basis).
If your child is labeled gifted, what are the benefits in your district? Here there are really not many benefits. In elementary, there is some sort of program for an hour or so every week or two. Not sure of the details since my kids were not IDed until 7th grade. The reason we had them labeled was so they would gain automatic entry to a special course in HS.
If there is no pressing reason to be labeled, I would wait a year or two and have him retest. I think it would be valuable to explain to him that it is okay and to his advantage to guess on the WISC. I am quite certain that the guessing worked to the advantage of DD17 and to the disadvantage of DD15 on the WISC. DD17 will guess even if she has only an inkling as to the answer, though DD15 wants to be sure she is right. DD15 did not qualify by the WISC (just missed w/128, took the WISC at age 10). When the district started using SB-V, she retested (at age 13) and qualified. Our district insists upon choosing the IQ test and administering the test - no outside testing allowed - and no use of GAI.
Thinking back, I believe that we disagreed with the original recommendation after the WISC for DD15 - since FSIQ<130, the school said she was fine in the regular classroom. So either don't sign or state that you disagree (but that didn't change anything for our kid).
I guess I'm surprised that you were informed of the KBIT score. After we received the WISC/SB-V reports for our kids, there were scores from other tests the school administered but we never knew about. DD15 had a SIT-R3 score of 143 in 2nd grade but we still have no idea why they gave her that test or what it means since they never provided the information to us.
