Originally Posted by Zen Scanner
If your school doesn't have a GATE Coordinator, I'd contact the district coordinator for fact finding. Odds are slim that someone at the school has encountered more than one kid at your daughter's level; whereas the coordinator should have wider exposure and hopefully training in the topic and be able to tell you the options both in your school and outside of it; that's a key piece of their job.

When needed, I find people get it a bit better when I translate the scores to ratios... in this case you could say (based on GAI) that fewer than 1 in 10,000 kids score in that range, or for the FSIQ, fewer than 1 in 1,000.

So DH called the district coordinator when he was at work today and I he was pretty livid with her response. It was pretty much "and soo...what can we do for you?" after he explained the situation. She stated that our school district does not recognize gate students until 3rd grade and that it's pretty much up to the school to decide if they will accelerate or skip. She did say why not put her in the district's magnet school for gifted and advanced students which my son attends but they do not accelerate, only enrich. This school is a good fit for my son, but the edu. psych. strongly believes this school will not be enough for her even with the grade skip (which I find really hard to even believe at this present time! I mean really? Will she likely be that capable??). No mention of support at all from her department. I was really surprised and angry to hear that she didn't offer any guidance and basically slammed the door in our face because DD is not in 3rd grade!
Thanks for your input regarding likely occurrence of her scores in the general population. Yes, the principal looked at her numbers and told my DH she didn't know what those score correlated to.