High CogAT but lower iReady - bumped from gifted services

[Anonymous]

The IReady was our first clue that our kid was dyslexic. Excelled in math and FCPS said she was on grade level in reading but we did private testing and she couldn’t read at all.

[Anonymous]

Going through something similar. I am wondering how the OP knew that her child outscored all of the other children who received gifted services? Is that something you can use to argue your case?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one in AAP is guaranteed a place re: Math

The OP is not in FCPS so AAP or not is not helpful to the OP.

Any child who is accepted into LIV by the Central Committee is guaranteed Advanced Math regardless of their grades or test scores after 3rd grade. A child that is committee placed cannot be removed from LIV except by their parents.

A child who is Principal Placed in LLIV or who is in Advanced math can be removed from LLIV or Advanced Math.

Can you provide evidence for this? It could be helpful for OP to use this when escalating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here with an update. I ended up sending a friendly, inquisitive email to the gifted services coordinator and got a very defensive email back in which she denied my request to reconsider pulling DC out of the gifted services program.

We continued working through AoPS pre-algebra at home with a lot of success, which is of course far beyond anything they do in 5th grade math pullout, so whatever.

DC scored in the 98% on iReady in the winter diagnostic. Reading scores were up a lot, too. Like I suspected, since DC has inattentive ADD, DC likely got bored on the earlier test and didn't try, or maybe we missed a day of medication and didn't realize it.

I doubt the school will do anything to remedy the situation, like put DC back in the gifted services program. I guess it doesn't matter - DC outscored almost all of the kids in the gifted program without the benefit of any gifted services at school. DC still really enjoys math and wants to study "computers" in college, so we'll keep plugging away with AoPS.

I wonder if you could talk to her upcoming math teacher about using the books when she's done with classwork?1

[Anonymous]

*the aops books, specifically

[Anonymous]

As for her confidence, see ifnyiu can get her in competitions like CML or MOEMS or math kangaroo. https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/List_of_United_States_elementary_school_mathematics_competitions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:*the aops books, specifically

I asked about just letting DC use AoPS books after finishing classwork and the teacher ghosted me. I get it - they are busy and probably have 20 parents like me with requests that make their already difficult job worse.