polarbear - Our house situation is what is really throwing the monkey wrench in this. I honestly don't know where we are going to be living 3 months from now so we don't know where the kids will end up in school. My DD is starting K but she does great at Montessori (she is MG I would guess). This is mainly the panic I feel LOL There are financial considerations too. We can't afford a new house in that area AND pay for both of them to stay in private school. So preferably DS will go to ps either in the gifted cluster or the gifted magnet.
You are right, he can reapply next year but there are probably only a handful of openings (due to kids moving, etc.) which is why I was hoping to get in this year when they are filling a whole grade.
They don't use a cut off number (so they say) because they have multiple items in the application that they consider. The lowest my son has scored in all 4 tests he has taken (overall numbers) is 97.3 percentile (and that was on the WISC-IV using the GAI which the tester said wasn't meaningful anyway because of the scatter). Otherwise they were 99.9, 98 and 98. The W-J III I was talking about is the achievement test.
I do plan to retest after therapy - if only for my curiosity to see if anything is different. Since he is currently in private, there won't be any official accommodations like an IEP but I would hope that the eye doctor could write up something if he needs accommodations for a test.
I plan to be diplomatic because I know they keep everything! I've also been reading From Emotions to Advocacy to help me with the public school processes and lingo.
Thanks for the advice - lots to think about!
