One of the reasons I'm taking advantage of my impending divorce to move is because the school is so resistant.
I actually HAVE identified an ideal public school placement for DD, in the school district where I have made an offer on a house. The school houses the half the self-contained gifted classes for the district, and DD's therapist has worked with their IEP and special ed teams, and everyone I've talked to says the principal's fantastic. But, to get DD into that school I have to move into it's zone (too expensive and makes my 2-hour round-trip commute worse) or get her admitted to the gifted program. But it is apparently easier to break into Fort Knox than get a PG child admitted to a gifted program here, even though I've put an offer on a house and produced for them buckets of test scores.
They require the CogAT and ITBS for admissions and rank candidates for admissions based on test scores. Our current district will be happy to send these scores, when they have them. But the new district will only look at scores if she's already admitted to another district's gifted program (even if their requirements are vastly different, whcih they are) and even then, they will "have to" re-test her on the CogAT, because, I don't know, they're too paranoid to trust our current district can do it right??
This is all so incredibly frustrating, I just want to tear my hair out.
Moving to a private school is not financially feasible, and anyhow, all the private school application deadlines at recommended schools have passed for this year. And it's pretty much impossible to move to a public school if you don't live in their service zone.
It's possible that if DD is admitted to the current district's gifted program, we could manage to stay here. But it's incredibly expensive, I haven't found any houses I can actually afford, and the rentals are worse than the mortgages.
