It does help. Very muchly!
Thanks for the company in nuttiness! It really does feel like we're in this together, doesn't it?
I got the impression--perhaps wrongly--that they wanted ONLY 3 pieces for the portfolio. It doesn't say "at least three;" it says "three." I understand why that might be the case: getting a box full of everything a kid has done since birth (and you KNOW some parent somewhere would do this!) would be too much for them to wade through. I can see that they might need to force some selectivity. But 3 seems like so little information...
You're right about the app questions, though. A lot of info can go in them. It's all about the total picture, right?
I change my mind almost hourly about the WISC. I should probably just bite the bullet and pay for it. Erk...It just hurts to think of plunking down another $750 or whatever it will be for another test that might not get him in YSP even if he is qualified. Don't you just wish there were one magic bullet test that could really distinguish accurately at the tail? Even if what it said was that my DS wasn't YSP material, I'd be much less stressed about his taking it if I knew it would give us a truly good read. But when the gifted expert who tested DS6 on the SB5 said he didn't know any more about where DS6 was operating after the test than he did before, I felt pretty frustrated. It just seems rather pointless and unreliable. Not to mention expensive...
I know, I know...pipe dreams...Kids are all different, tests can only measure certain things, we don't understand what constitutes intelligence for sure, etc. etc. I get it, I just know that I prefer certainty to this nebulous "maybe" stuff!
Even so, we'll probably just have him take the WISC and get it over with. One test takes all! No pressure though...
