Long story short: DD is 8, 2nd grade, public school. She has ADHD and SPD. She has trouble with transitions, high anxiety, and is a huge perfectionist. Before she was medicated late last spring, we had a ton of behavior problems. Poor social skills, for which she gets spec ed. She is the kind of bright kid is notorious with everyone she's ever met.
Accomodation for academics at our school have been, to be kind, spotty. Her kindergarten teacher would send home 5th-6th grade reading comprehension stuff. In 1st grade, the school was too busy obsessing about her behavior to do anything: "When she's better behaved" they'd say. 2nd grade, she's on ADHD meds, better behavior, her teacher would send home 6th grade spelling words. Before our last IEP meeting the school psych did the RAIS IQ test on her, but happened to administer it the very same day DD came home with a 101.5 degree fever. Nonetheless, she scored a 147 on verbal and a 99 on non-verbal (which I would guess is about when the fever kicked in), but the school was disinterested in this 48-point variance and declined to do further IQ or achievement testing. "Gosh," they tell me in IEP meetings, "She can't possibly be bored with 2nd grade work. And why shouldn't she have to read the textbook twice like everyone else?" Granted, we're in a very high-performing school in a high COL area and I know there are other kids working beyond 2nd grade level. But that doesn't mean that DD shouldn't get work that's actually a challenge for her.
So I paid to have the WISC-IV and WIAT-III done privately, and every single composite score is at or above 99%. Ironically her reading comprehension score was her lowest, but she's still really high for her age.
DD's original 2nd grade teacher is on maternity leave; the new teacher has been a teacher for all of 4 weeks. She's youngish, has minimal experience, and no tenure, and if her teacher education program was like the one I completed last year, I'd bet she got maybe 15 minutes of instruction on teaching gifted kids.
There is a 99% chance we will be at a different school next year, but the end of the school year is 3.5 months away and the 2nd grade is completely wasted on DD. Now that I have test scores on hand, I really want to talk to the school and try to get academic accommodation again. But historically they've evaded and avoided every prior request. Should I start with the new teacher? Should I send the scores to the IEP team and ask for a meeting? WWYD?
