Thanks for the reply; this is helpful.
They do not accept outside testing.
She got a 126 on the NNAT in kindergarten, which is one of the reasons she was placed in GT.
She is basically a gifted underacheiver; she makes grades just high enough not to cause undue alarm, but she is performing well below her abilities and potential. This is a large suburban school district but our elementary school has only 400 students, so for years she was the ONLY GT student in her grade. Elementary has a once-a-week pullout program for GT, which she liked for a while but began to rebel against in 4th grade. She hated being singled out and has now decided she does not want to be "smart" anymore.
Junior high (6th grade, next year) is a much larger school, and they do ability grouping, so the GT kids are clustered with Pre-AP kids in one section of each subject. I think she will do much better in a while class of smart kids rather than being bored 4 days a week and socially isolated 1 day a week.
Edit: I feel like the district is making a special effort to take this GT label away from her, when she has not even had a chance to experience the secondary-level GT program, which is very different from the elementary pull-out program.
Last edited by AmyE; 04/23/09 08:16 AM.
