Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Wide spread in WISC...common? school issues?

That sounds terrific! Unfortunately that is not an option in our district.


I believe they start this in 3rd grade. Right now she gets a math pullout one day a week where they do logic puzzles and introduction to more advanced concepts, but that's it. And just to make things more complicated her regular teacher is actually out on maternity leave and will be gone until the first of May. We have had several issues with the long term sub, but I think things may finally be settling down.


You know, that's a good question. She actually is at her worst with younger kids and kids around her own age. She does pretty well with kids a fair bit older than her, say 11/12 (she is 7). She gets along great with the 6th grade older sister of one of her friends. Adults do often find her behavior frustrating in groups, but one on one she does very well. It's more that in group and/or chaotic situations she gets all riled up and then can't seem to get herself back under control.

Hmmm...That leads me to believe that she's not immature, but merely frustrated with kids who are not her intellectual peers. I know this isn't what you want to hear, but it says to me that you might want to consider a grade skip.

Consider how a 7yo would act if she were cooped up with 4yos (or 5yos or whatever) all day, expected to play with them and do the same work they are doing. She might act out a bit, right? That's probably sort of how she feels in a regular classroom.

Have you read "A Nation Deceived?"

http://www.nationdeceived.org/

It's free, and it's well-researched. You might want to take a look at it before you decide that a grade skip is wrong for her. It may be wrong for her, of course, but I think it's good to get the facts before you make that call.

(Full disclosure: we chose to homeschool rather than to grade skip our HG+ son. So I'm not a grade skip pusher. LOL!)

Thanks. We had a house full of guests all weekend.

I have read The Nation Deceived Report. And I do believe, I'm just not so it's even worth going there with the school. Plus I think the idea of a skip like that might freak DD out as well.

I do have a more technical WISC follow-up question though. MIL was here over the weekend. She used to be a school psychologist and said the psychologist we used did not use the Arithmetic subscore to calculate her WPI which brought it down. Anyone know why she might have chosen to do that?

Dottie, thanks for your feedback. That is interesting. I wonder why they changed the scoring like that.