Loudoun County FUTURA decisions

[Anonymous]

My DS had qualifying test scores in CoGAT (94% Verbal, 99% Quantitative, 99% Non-verbal) and NNAT 99%. I did provide authorization to the district to go ahead and evaluate him for FUTURA. What are the 2 other evaluation criteria besides the qualifying scores.
He is a year younger than his classmates, as such, would he be at a disadvantage while he is being evaluated for FUTURA? In your opinion, would you think that younger kids can cope with FUTURA work as well as homeschool assignments as well. I understand that answers to some of these questions may depend on a child's personality and aptitude. I do not know what to think of DS. At school, he is easily distracted and at times appears to be a dreamer. His grades at school reflect the same - in some assignments he shows results beyond his years. In other assignments, you can easily make out that he wanted to do anything except work on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS had qualifying test scores in CoGAT (94% Verbal, 99% Quantitative, 99% Non-verbal) and NNAT 99%. I did provide authorization to the district to go ahead and evaluate him for FUTURA. What are the 2 other evaluation criteria besides the qualifying scores.
He is a year younger than his classmates, as such, would he be at a disadvantage while he is being evaluated for FUTURA? In your opinion, would you think that younger kids can cope with FUTURA work as well as homeschool assignments as well. I understand that answers to some of these questions may depend on a child's personality and aptitude. I do not know what to think of DS. At school, he is easily distracted and at times appears to be a dreamer. His grades at school reflect the same - in some assignments he shows results beyond his years. In other assignments, you can easily make out that he wanted to do anything except work on that.

To answer your first question, the 2 other evaluation criteria are
1. Classroom teacher recommendation
2. SEARCH work

Since your son is already in the pool, he will have to meet one of the two above criteria to get admitted to FUTURA.

Regarding age, I am not sure but I do not think that should matter. For FUTURA, it's once a week pullout program so students are expected to make up any missed work from their base school.

[Anonymous]

Would anyone know if the FUTURA decisions have been mailed? The suspense is killing me! DS on the other hand is oblivious to this (as should be)! ?

[Anonymous]

Someone posted in this thread several years ago on June 6 and said she just received the letter. So I think early June is about when the letters are going out. Hang on there.

[Anonymous]

Typically in the last 2-3 years, people have received the letters in the last week of May, around May 25/26 timeframe. So I assume that probably the letters are already mailed out/ being mailed out and folks should receive them by the end of the week. It used to be June 5-6 years back but it has mostly been May looking at the last few years. So hang in there!

[Anonymous]

The letters are out. I received the notification letter today from LCPS.

[Anonymous]

Thank you! Hope your child was selected!

[Anonymous]

I got the FUTURA decision letter today. Thanks to all the enthusiastic parents for their valuable inputs.

[Anonymous]

We got ours also today. She was selected! Thank you all for the input and updates on this thread. It helped make the wait seem a little less painful!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you! Hope your child was selected!

Thank you. DS was selected.