Based on where we are at this year (more than halfway over) we will very likely begrudgingly accept the GIEP so that he can start the pull out enrichment. I'd rather get something started now than wait another 6 weeks. We will see what they say when we meet them tomorrow. Maybe they'll surprise us. But I think right now we're just going to make the best of the remainder of this year, and then this summer re-evaluate.
Based on the scores, Dottie I agree with you. The scores just don't seem inline with our observations which is what is nagging me. They are not completely inline with the WIAT scores but they're not totally out of whack either (although that was 6 months ago). I would be interested in getting more details on the test they gave, but I'm not sure that they'll share that with us (I don't think they are required to). For example, one comment was that DS needs to work more on number sense. I guess is depends on what they asked him about (he doesn't have good number sense for money for example). But if you're just talking about word problems ("Mary had 12 pencils, she gave away 2 pencils, how many did she have left over?") he's pretty sharp.
But I think for now we're going to try to make the best of what we have. I know that during math class right now, he really doesn't learn anything. That's not a great situation.
JB