And Cricket, congratulations for making lemonade out of lemons. We will want to hear how it turns out.
Just as a quick and early update, dd9 seems to be doing well. Her test scores being so erratic have been what has kept her out of a lot of these programs in the past. However, her test scores also seem to depend largely on confidence which is directly impacted by her placement. When teachers give her the msg that they don't believe she can do it (either directly as her 3rd grade teacher did or indirectly by placing her in the average groupings), her scores invariably drop.
For instance, her math MAPS were running in the 90s in 2nd grade and then dropped like a rock in 3rd and never really recovered after that. She's a week into school and a week into the subject accelerated math and they just did the MAPS math test today. Her score was in the 97th percentile for a 5th grader (her grade). While not super high like some of your math-genius kiddos here
it's still not an average kid and does warrant her placement in accelerated classes such as the one she's in.
Now, she needs to stay consistent this year and not drop again by the end of the year. If she can get the score up a mere 3 points by the end of the year she'll qualify to subject accelerate and do 7th grade math in 6th grade at the middle school. If not, we're looking at a second year of 6th grade math which can't be ideal.
