It has been two weeks now and the only reply I received from our Dept. of Education Gifted Coordinator's office was that my email was being forwarded to some other people who are supposed to answer my questions.
I did find some information to include in our letters to our senator requesting a change to our state law to allow homeschooled students, especially twice exceptional students, to take some classes at the public school, for example band and gifted class, and to be allowed to play on the playground with other kids during recess.
My special ed teacher friend thinks I should also ask for the physical therapy for his sensory issues and hypotonia that he should have received from the school when he attended kindergarten at age five. We did ask about that a couple of years ago and we were told by the special ed director that my son would no longer be eligibile for those services since he was by then age 7. I think the school is supposed to identify kids that are suspected of having a disability or delay. But then, they are also supposed to report the number of gifted kids and they didn't do that either when my son was there. She thinks they might help me if I threaten to get a lawyer.
It just seems that twice exceptional kids are left out where we live and it is wrong, but nobody around here seems to care. I think the Dept. of Ed. is just going to blow me off again, but that is okay, we will include that info in our letter to the senator also.
