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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a huge difference between the school staff that says your child can learn nothing and the staff that thinks your child is of average intelligence.[/quote]

True.  But the problem either way is threefold, in my experience:

1. School staff are often wrong.
2. The conclusion that a child is of average intelligence is often accompanied by staff ignoring or downplaying a child's academic gifts or potential.
3.[b] School staff hyperfocuses on the behavioral, social or emotional needs or problems to the exclusion of the academic needs.
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Balance is important.  Listening to parents is important.  An adversarial relationship between school and parents doesn't start with the parent coming in demanding things. It starts with a school that acts in its own best interests and not those of the child.

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This.    We were told DS could not be in a GT LD class b/c "they don't have kids with those [impulsive] behaviors in THAT class."[/quote]
What extra supports do you feel your child would have needed to have succeeded in that class?[/quote]

Class size of 28 down to 7-8 would have been great for starters.     
Smaller class would have helped with prompting to stay focused and on track.  
Smaller class of kids who ask questions (not just one question every other day in math for instance), maybe a few questions, would have been tolerated vs. a teacher who wanted to knock DS back to on-grade level math (we and school agreed he was well beyond in math) because she didn't like dealing with him.   
Exercise or stretching break might have been permitted because it would not have been "unfair" like what the teacher in the regular 25-30 kids classroom felt.
Fidgets.   Among 7-8 other different learners one does not stand out, or get made fun of or ostracized.
Environment matters.  I learned just fine in a 30 kid filled classroom, but it is not for everyone.    A child who tests well, from everyone's perspective, deserves the opportunity to do more than just "get by" because he or she cannot function in a full bustling classroom.
Perhaps if DS was given the opportunity, with an appropriate 504 or IEP, it might have worked or perhaps not.     But due to the "we cannot see beyond current behavior" the answer was flat no.

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