Make that most schools in New Zealand don't have gifted programmes and neither know nor care about giftedness. To be honest I suspect a lot of them don't know the difference between % and %ile and therefore think that a lot of kids score at least 99% in tests is a reasonable statement.
I got ds6 tested at 5.10 because I was convinced I was imagining things (I put him at MG ot just under not PG) it hasn't made a difference at school but it has forced me to torture the budget for ODS and stopped me second guessing myself.
The RUF estimates didn't work for ds6 but did work for ds4 who is much more verbal and some early milestones. To be fair though if I had the book I might have found it included the early milestones that ds6 did have. Auckland may have enough kids for a gifted school but nowhere else does. It is a pity that the charter schools couldn't have included a gifted school but I think that would cost the election (which wouldn't worry me but might upset John)
