Thank you, sallymom. I do realize this. DS earns As and Bs in reading and language arts so he isn't doing poorly according to his school's standards. Based on his KBIT2 scores, he only qualifies for the science and math classes at the university anyway (which are his area of interests).
I want to make it clear that I am not trying to "beat the system" to get him into the school's gifted program (which is actually lax compared to some of the other programs that I read about--it's a pull out for a couple of hours once a week. The fifth graders who are in the program do science projects). I just want the truest possible representation of his score that I can get. My number one goal is to retest for the university program, and I could accomplish that with having him retake the KBIT2. I was simply trying to kill two birds with one stone.
I do plan to go through the school process, however, when I spoke with the administration about it, they made it seem like the process is very lax (this is my interpretation). I prefer to have a definite test with results that I can understand and read. If he qualifies for the school gifted program, that is great, and if he doesn't qualify, that is also fine. We will just continue with the gifted program at the university.
