Level II Services?

[Anonymous]

Our kindergartner is advanced in both reading and math, and I think she would benefit from Level II Services. Is it common for parents to refer their kids or should we leave this to the teacher?

[Anonymous]

Don't bother, its not a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't bother, its not a thing.

Agreed. Not a thing.

[Anonymous]

Also, your kid is in K. Studies tend to show that most advanced kids with reading level out with their peers by 2nd grade or so.

Just let your kid enjoy K, would be my advice.

[Anonymous]

My daughter supposedly gets Level II services in 1st grade and agrees with PPs that it is actually nothing.

[Anonymous]

(Haha, meant to say "I agree" not that my 1st grader agrees)

[Anonymous]

agreed, it's not a "thing," but if you intend to apply for AAP in second grade, it helps to see that check mark that the student is already receiving "advanced curriculum," even when they're not actually receiving anything advanced. It indicates that someone, somewhere, at some point has determined they need more.

[Anonymous]

DS was in LII and it was a bunch of extra worksheets in math and a special reading group in LA. I would guess that they only benefit was that it meant the AART was aware of him and it gave his Teachers a better sense of what he was able to do in math and that he needed more of a challenge. But I don't think that the actual work did much for him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, your kid is in K. Studies tend to show that most advanced kids with reading level out with their peers by 2nd grade or so.

Just let your kid enjoy K, would be my advice.

Can you provide these studies?

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for the responses. I am not sure what our school does because I haven't wanted to ask anyone I know.

So it sounds like the self-referral is not commonly done?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the responses. I am not sure what our school does because I haven't wanted to ask anyone I know.

So it sounds like the self-referral is not commonly done?

I don't know anyone who self referred for LII. We were surprised when we got a letter about LII services and only know a few other people who had received one based on questions that they asked at a class event at the end of first grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the responses. I am not sure what our school does because I haven't wanted to ask anyone I know.

So it sounds like the self-referral is not commonly done?

I don't know anyone who self-referred for LII. We were surprised when we got a letter about LII services and only know a few other people who had received one based on questions that they asked at a class event at the end of first grade.

This is very helpful - thank you! The only person I have talked to about this in real life approached me with it and was submitting their kid and I wondered if I was remiss not to do the same. They are at a different elementary school in another part of Fairfax - it is a center school and ours is Spanish Immersion - not sure if that makes a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the responses. I am not sure what our school does because I haven't wanted to ask anyone I know.

So it sounds like the self-referral is not commonly done?

I don't know anyone who self-referred for LII. We were surprised when we got a letter about LII services and only know a few other people who had received one based on questions that they asked at a class event at the end of first grade.

This is very helpful - thank you! The only person I have talked to about this in real life approached me with it and was submitting their kid and I wondered if I was remiss not to do the same. They are at a different elementary school in another part of Fairfax - it is a center school and ours is Spanish Immersion - not sure if that makes a difference.

We were in an LI program and received the letter leading into second grade but nothing for first grade. We are pretty sure that was because of the LI part of it, the focus was really on getting the language base down and fitting in the regular math and LA.

There are pros to LII services but the services depend on each school and how they end up providing services. Different schools have a different approach, it wasn't a huge deal at our school. That said, it told us that DS was on the AARTs radar, which is probably a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks for the responses. I am not sure what our school does because I haven't wanted to ask anyone I know.

So it sounds like the self-referral is not commonly done?

I don't know anyone who self-referred for LII. We were surprised when we got a letter about LII services and only know a few other people who had received one based on questions that they asked at a class event at the end of first grade.

This is very helpful - thank you! The only person I have talked to about this in real life approached me with it and was submitting their kid and I wondered if I was remiss not to do the same. They are at a different elementary school in another part of Fairfax - it is a center school and ours is Spanish Immersion - not sure if that makes a difference.

We were in an LI program and received the letter leading into second grade but nothing for first grade. We are pretty sure that was because of the LI part of it, the focus was really on getting the language base down and fitting in the regular math and LA.

There are pros to LII services but the services depend on each school and how they end up providing services. Different schools have a different approach, it wasn't a huge deal at our school. That said, it told us that DS was on the AARTs radar, which is probably a good thing.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don't bother, its not a thing.

Agreed. Not a thing.

Agreed. I got the letter, accepted, then the teacher in first grade had no clue of what it mean when I asked her. Asked the and heAART teacher said is done in classroom by the teacher. Next quarter asked again to teacher, no update, no activities, no tasks, nothing done.