Thank you so much for your response. I'm sorry I haven't gotten back sooner but the weekends are chaos with 5 kids. My concern is the fact that our school is doing away with the WISC IV for entrance and now using a rubric for the "academically talented" program including the COGAT, MAPS, the NJ ASK and the SIGS (which is a parent questionaire that you fill out to compare your child to other children in their class confused!!). With this new rubric he wouldn't even make it into the Math program at all and with the Language arts he would only make it into their Tier 2 program. I was the committee for this whole process and it is just so irritating and frustrating. When you read the research, here is absolutely no comparison with these group tests compared to individual tests. If it wasn't for the G&T teacher using her own discretion to offer these new services to my son and the 3 other G&T kids from the previous program (who would also not qualify for a lot of the new programs) they would once again be sitting there in class - not that this new program is going to offer them what they need. But something is better than nothing right? So I guess we all just hope that our kids score well because this is what is going to happen when the programs and the definitions of G&T begin to change. And it has completely changed in NJ.

Thanks again and I'd love to hear if anyone else has had any similar experiences and how they have handled it. Myself and the other G&T children's parents asked to have a group meeting with the principal and she flat out refused! We all had a conference call last night to see how we are going to handle this. It has really become a mess cry. I'll let you know what happens.

Julie