Because my son was so fidgety at that age and some days were better than others I am sure that he could have tested on two different days and had completely different results. I wondered if it was possible for him to be gifted four or five days a week and not gifted at all the rest of the time. I guess those four or five gifted days were what allowed him to score high on an achievement test while only homeschooling about two hours a day when he was first grade age.
The educational psychologist who tested him the month he turned seven said he had trouble sitting still. I knew this would be a problem and I didn't make him sit more than 15 minutes at a time to do any kind of learning activity. Yet he could sit for hours at a computer if I let him which I could not understand. The developmental pediatrician said some people might think he had ADD. In piano he was either good even without practicing at all or not good at all even after practicing. There was no way of predicting if he was going to have a good day or a bad day. I wondered how they could possibly get an accurate test result. I wondered if he needed to take several different tests over different days and just average the scores to get a more accurate picture. We couldn't afford any more testing. We had to take what our insurance paid for and all they paid for was an individual achievement test.
I knew that my son learned differently and needed some accommodation for this but I didn't know how to get it. A child should not have to wait another year for an appropriate education at just the right challenge level and the right pace. I don't understand why a school would be so strict about a score on an IQ test. My son's older gifted friend didn't make a qualifying score the first time he was tested but he did the second time. So I guess he wasn't gifted the day he took the first test but he was the day he took the second test. None of this makes sense to me, but it does make me mad sometimes.
All of this is frustrating. I can put the shoes on both feet(LOL)I understand all too well my side of this, but I can understand the schools side as well. My priority is my 2 sons, the schools priority is all the kids. I just want to find a happy middle for both. To schools defence, they will work with me willingly on any LD he may have, but getting appropreit work seems to be the road block.
I have been thinking a lot about the possibility of HSing, but that terrifies me. I don't think I'm cut out for that type of work. I'm afraid I would do more harm than good.
