If your child score 99.9% ile on WPPSI, who tested him/her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has it occurred to you that some schools recommend testers who serve on their boards and or admission committees? Have you ever heard of conflict of interest? The seats in our area private schools do need to be filled to pay the high salaries of the executive administration.

Has it occurred to you, in a down year, some kids score well (by recommended testers) in order to fill seats in certain private schools? Explains the epidemic of 99.9 percentiles for at best ... average kids!

At 400K a pop for a test and on a school rolladex...what a "you scratch my back I scratch yours" Ponzi scheme. Conflict of interest laden racket. No rocket science here...easily comprehensible to a 6th grader at a Big 3s.

Prove it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, OP. If you are as smart as a 6th grader and know all the ins and outs of testers on the take, then why on earth do you need us to tell you the testers' names? Apparently you know all the testers on the boards etc - just go to one and, what? slip him or her $100?

or head up to Baltimore, where the WPPSI/WISC isnt required - the AD does the testing. Then you only have to buy off one person.

[Anonymous]

Why are there so many average children that score 99.9 percentile on this "IQ test"? Sounds like a big time scam South of Baltimore. The kids or the testers?

[Anonymous]

Is it just the WPSSI testers that are corrupt or are the WISC-IV testers corrupt too?

I've always wondered why elite schools that have such "gifted" kids filling their classrooms needed so many "specialists" on-hand to help the kids through the day!

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]Is it just the WPSSI testers that are corrupt or are the WISC-IV testers corrupt too?

I've always wondered why elite schools that have such "gifted" kids filling their classrooms needed so many "specialists" on-hand to help the kids through the day![/quote]

A child can knock the ball out of the park and still have other challenges. I have three neurotype kids, but we have a few sets of friends with children of various challenges. All these kids are very, very bright. I know at least two who blew out the WPPSI. They still need specialists.

All to say to PP, get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Highest concentration of gifted children with ADHD and 99.9 percentile scores plus accommodations in private school. Bizarre.

[Anonymous]

Those kids scoring below 90 percentile must be in such a state by comparison!

[Anonymous]

Follow the money: tests to get in, plus more tests and specialists to stay in. There's probably an interesting story in this for an enterprising reporter who 1) doesn't have children in a private school; 2) doesn't ever want to have children in the private schools; 3) doesn't have friends or colleagues who have children in private schools; and 4) doesn't care if he/she ever has friends or colleagues with children in private schools. Then find a newspaper that doesn't depend on subscribers who send their children to private schools to publish the story

[Anonymous]

I thought the WIPPSI was a waste of time and money, but it was a requirement for entry into K (not a big 3, but competitive), so we did it. We used one of the testers the school recommended. All of my kids did fine. Not 99.9%, but well (over 140).

Fast forward 3 years and my son is tested at NIH and scores insanely high - 99.9% in many areas, but not across the board. He was part of a study, and we were truly shocked at the level of his abilities, as well as his deficits. Anyhoo, all three kids doing great at great schools.

I think testing a four year old is ridiculous. It did not adequately reflect any of my kid's true strengths, or their weaknesses. I just showed that they are basically bright kids.

[Anonymous]

Joel Adler