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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I disagree with your premise that because your older kid was found eligible for Level IV, he should have been identified for Level II services starting in K. Kids mature at different rates. I know kids who were just accepted to AAP for next year who were not even reading confidently at the end of K. Why would that kid get differentiated services in reading?  See what I mean?[/quote]

I agree.  There are kids who are on grade level and appear average in every way, but then knock the CogAT out of the park.  The school didn't make a mistake by not identifying them, since there was no indication at all that the kid needed differentiation.

OP: Was your K child above grade on i-ready?  Is that child reading full chapter books?  Was your older child above grade level in K or 1st?  The school is probably identifying kids who are above grade level based on their math reasoning tests, DRA tests, and i-ready.  [/quote]

This is a fair enough point, and one that I don't disagree with (that kids mature at different rates, etc.).  With DC1, after K, I got none of the data listed above (I don't believe anyone did).  As you know, in FPCS the report card says y or n for receiving above grade level instruction in math, and for grades K-2, DC1's report card always said "n" there.  BUT, DC1's level IV AAP application packet, that I requested, did say "yes" for working above grade level in math.  I have no idea what the disconnect is there - is it that the report card says "receiving above grade level instruction" and DC1 wasn't receiving it, because it is not offered at our base school?  And the level IV packet states: "working above grade level", and it said "yes" there because DC1 was indeed working above grade level in math, even though DC1 was not being instructed by any teacher at that level?  I don't know if anyone at our base school, for grades K-2, ever gets a "y" for math on the report card there.  I do know, there are no pullouts or advanced math groups for anyone in grades K-2 at our ES.

For DC2, who just finished K, I guess I would have previously received no data after K like for DC1, but due to the recent change to have iReady, I did actually get the iReady report this year.  DC2's iReady was in the 510-520 range for reading (pick the middle, I'm trying to maintain some anonymity!!) and the report said above grade level for everything.  Is that in level II AAP range?  Are all Kers scoring in that range?  Am I taking crazy pills? LOL.  I feel like that seems "good" to me, because I purposely don't teach any of my kids to read before K because despite how this post makes me seem, I believe in play!  DC2 learned to do CVC words alone before K, and then just picked it all up quickly once they started learning to read in K.

I really felt like I was taking crazy pills with DS1, until I got the COGAT scores - then I felt vindicated and like I wasn't going crazy.  And now in Level IV, DC1's report card says above grade level for reading and "y" in math and DC1 got a 600 in math on the SOL (and advanced pass in reading) - so I feel like I wasn't actually going crazy but for some reason the base school was not recognizing or at least not relaying any of this to me!!!  HA!

ANYWAY, for DC2, I decided to wait and see if I get any letter about being identified for Level II AAP after K, since I know some kids are (because IMO comparing to DC1, DC2 is advanced).  Now I have reached that point and have gotten nothing, so trying to figure out where to go from here, ha.  I guess the answer is nowhere :)  Stop thinking about it :)                [/quote]

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