So, I had the meeting with the program director. It started off very rough with arguments about the CogAT test. The district does not have child psychologists so they only go off the group scores of the CogAT.
Well, as the discussion progressed, I informed the director of my talks with the different CTY's. I happened to get many studies emailed to me yesterday that I will be forwarding to the district today. They were extremely shocked to hear the studies. I explained how these studies explain my child 100% and shows the failure of proper screening in the district. They are fully willing to read the studies to bring up at the next school board meeting.
We then got into my son's academic acheivements. I gave him the list of the books my son has read and tested on, which are between a high 4th to a low 8th grade level. It also gave his reading comprehension scores of these books. All tests were scored between 90-100% for comprehension. Keep in mind his CogAT scores state he cannot comprehend even basic concepts.
I then handed him my son's workbooks that he does for fun at home. These are his math books with 3rd and 4th grade math. He was suprised and asked if I helped my son with any of it. The answer was no. My son does it all on his own for fun.
After seeing all of this, my son's district test scores ended up getting pulled up. The director wanted to look to see how well he scores (why they didn't do that originally I do not know), and gasped. My son is the top student in the district for the second grade in reading, math, science, and social studies. Across the board. They grade on a 1-4 scale here and he scored 4's on everything with exception of 2 tests, which he scored the highest level of 3.
After reading everything my son has scored on, the director gave me an appeal form and said he wanted me to fill it out and put the dates of all upcoming testing for my son. He acknowledged that the district may have made a huge error in judgement. He also set my son up for MAP testing to be done within the next month. The MAP testing in our district is 4th-6th grade levels.
As far as the testing, here in Washington the testing costs up to $6000 depending on which psychologist you go to. Thankfully, my pediatrician is now on board and submitted it through our insurance. Insurance will be covering around 90% of the costs. He will be going through the full battery of testing to include a properly tested CogAT, IQ, Iowa Advancement, etc. This will take place over a few days to get the proper results.
The last thing the director asked me is what my child said about the CogAT test. My son informed me that he hated the teacher that administered it and that she was rude. He also asked me why he was forced to waste his time on such a stupid test. Those were his actual words. The director admitted that my son sounded extremely gifted.
As far as the level of gifted, we are not yet sure until he gets the IQ testing. The majority of our family ranges between 160-200 for IQ, so my guess is his will be fairly high.
