This is a topic for another thread, but I will briefly say that if you have provided an SB, WISC or WPPSI administered by a qualified tester than the teacher's opinion at that point is inconsequential. My six year old child doesn't have to "prove" anything to any teacher at this point, the concept is preposterous.
And this has been a mixed bag for us. On the one hand the SB5 showed that his IQ is gifted. On the other hand,
just barely if you look at just the number. And on yet another hand at least the pysch put in the official report "this was not a good test for DS so these results are on the low end". The achievement scores prove that out.
Our tester wasn't a GT specialist so he only gave us achievement scores on those scores that could be based on pre-K levels (just 1 reading section and 1 math section). At the time we didn't push for it, but it seems he could have used norms for other children and just note that on the result. He did issue some other achievement sub-tests and included in the report that DS had some vertical knowledge of math that was up to the 5th grade level.
Basically when DS wants to learn something he does it and how.
JB (still venting a little thanks for listening)
