I looked again at ALEKS compared to our state curriculum and they list TD next to several concepts so I just don't know if DD will test well on those. I feel so bad that for all these years we didn't know that DD was so gifted. And now if she doesn't pass this other state test (no matter what her WISC or WJ or Cogat or Iowa say), she won't get more challenging work. The AIG system that she has been accepted into is 1 hour a week pullout - that's it. The rest of the time she's doing the same ol' same ol'. Her older sister, who I think is moderately gifted (untested) actually seems to be doing better on ALEKS because she is one of those determined, organized kids who just keeps plugging ahead. It just wouldn't be right if older DD gets SSA and younger DD does not. It will just about break DD's heart especially since she thinks that big sister is so much better than her. How can a kid with such a big IQ be so unaware of her smarts, her imagination? And now I am second guessing myself about which SSA subject I picked. Younger DD is at a high school level for reading and would have done well on the LA test without any work. The AIG teacher told me to have DD do the math test though.
Thanks all for just listening to me worry.
