Hi
I'm new to this.....Our DD is 6 and will be entering 1st grade this fall. She entered Kindergarten reading at about a level "H". She finished Kindergarten reading at a level "T". She was in ELP for 1/2 hour a week. The school made promises of having her read with !st grade readers last year, and never did. The books they read in class were WAY to easy. The teacher even remarked that she was having a hard time finds books for our daughter to read!
The problem is that the school didn't take us seriously. While they put her in ELP for 1/2 a week, that wasn't enough. When I talked with someone about testing, etc. all I got was pushback. Finally, after talking to GT professional in another school district, she gave me a list of things that I needed to do. DD finally was given the CoGAT after asking what criteria needed to be met to have the test given. Her results were: 97%-verbal, 93% Quantitative, 94% Non verbal. I received the results just as they were posted above and was told to go on line to search for more information.
I wanted the test to help plan to how her needs could be met. I was told we'd see how things worked out in the classroom first.
My mom spidey senses have been on alert since day one. It doesn't feel right. The teachers seem tired. There are a lot of kids with socioeconomic problems at home, low parental involvement (Even have a special group to try to get parents involved), ELL target school and a fairly high percentage of turnover of children throughout the year.
My husband thinks nothing is wrong and that everything is fine. Mind you he is never there during school hours.
We are also having an IQ test given to her by a child psychologist. Our DD has some asynchronous development and is highly sensitive. Today we both had meltdowns (crying) at the end of her weeklong summer invention camp.
I'm worn out and frustrated. It's hard having a kid that would rather talk about red blood cells and how important they are than talk about other more "kid" oriented topics.
Anyone have thoughts, suggestions or been there?
We are going to try to open enroll for this fall with good cause being her Test results and no formal GT groups, including parent groups are not offered in our current district. The district we want to go into has tons of social/special events for kids in the GT program-science fair, Math Games, etc. Those sorts of things are what WE need, what SHE needs. My husband says I try too hard. She's been my full time job since birth. I'm going with my mom instincts!
Thank you for listening to this frazzled mommy:-)
Last edited by Gardengirl09; 07/22/13 08:44 AM.
