Held back but gifted, is this frowned upon?

[Anonymous]

I held my son back (June) and I am testing him into the gifted program at our school. The way our school program works is only the top percentile compared to peers are chosen. Is it generally frowned upon to take a spot if you are supposed to be in the grade above?

[Anonymous]

Yes.

Why hold him back?

If he's not gifted but just a year older, he's going to have severe academic trouble in the GT programs as the peer age gap shrinks

[Anonymous]

At our school gifted testing is age normed to cover fur the age range issue..but if offered a spot I think it's fine to accept.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our school gifted testing is age normed to cover fur the age range issue..but if offered a spot I think it's fine to accept.

Age norm is difficult to cover or adjust for in early elementary, sometimes how a student performs on a test has less to do with their natural intelligence and more to do with understanding of test/technology

[Anonymous]

You are nuts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our school gifted testing is age normed to cover fur the age range issue..but if offered a spot I think it's fine to accept.

Age norm is difficult to cover or adjust for in early elementary, sometimes how a student performs on a test has less to do with their natural intelligence and more to do with understanding of test/technology

Better than just calling every redshirted kid gifted and every kid with a late birthday slow..when they are 1.5 years apart. At 5 that is huge.

[Anonymous]

Do what is best for your kid. The rest is noise.

[Anonymous]

It’s okay if your son isn’t gifted. To hold him back so you have a chance when he is older is wild. Just accept him for him and move on. There are some really talented students out there that deserve a spot in their year not just because a parent holds them back a year or two so they can claim he is gifted. Crazy work going in to justifying this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our school gifted testing is age normed to cover fur the age range issue..but if offered a spot I think it's fine to accept.

Age norm is difficult to cover or adjust for in early elementary, sometimes how a student performs on a test has less to do with their natural intelligence and more to do with understanding of test/technology

No, that's what age normed means, they account for that.

[Anonymous]

Yo do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our school gifted testing is age normed to cover fur the age range issue..but if offered a spot I think it's fine to accept.

Age norm is difficult to cover or adjust for in early elementary, sometimes how a student performs on a test has less to do with their natural intelligence and more to do with understanding of test/technology

No, that's what age normed means, they account for that.

Still doesn’t account for kids on the younger end who just can’t figure out how to take the test at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our school gifted testing is age normed to cover fur the age range issue..but if offered a spot I think it's fine to accept.

Age norm is difficult to cover or adjust for in early elementary, sometimes how a student performs on a test has less to do with their natural intelligence and more to do with understanding of test/technology

No, that's what age normed means, they account for that.

Still doesn’t account for kids on the younger end who just can’t figure out how to take the test at all.

We can hopefully assume that test developers do a good bit of testing on the right age kid to make it accessible to the population.

[Anonymous]

Why on earth would you hold back a child born in June and especially one you think is gifted? OMG, redshirting is out of control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our school gifted testing is age normed to cover fur the age range issue..but if offered a spot I think it's fine to accept.

Age norm is difficult to cover or adjust for in early elementary, sometimes how a student performs on a test has less to do with their natural intelligence and more to do with understanding of test/technology

No, that's what age normed means, they account for that.

Still doesn’t account for kids on the younger end who just can’t figure out how to take the test at all.

I have a child born in June that started school on time and was accepted into AAP with excellent test scores. We didn't know about test prep at the time (first child) so the only prep she had was in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

Yes but it is done. Don't talk about it. You'll just have to live with your conscience - you do not deserve to be relieved of that.