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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our Midwest district there is a lot for gifted and not much for 1-2 grade levels behind it seems. I have 2 gifted kids aged 12 and 14 - they go to gifted school once a week for the whole day in elementary school then have gifted programming every other day in middle school. Middle school also starts offering honors classes and different math tracks, plus there are all sorts of enriching clubs.

Frustratingly, my 6 yo in 1st grade, who is already 1+ grade levels behind, does not get any in school pull outs or push in- just gets his iready lessons. His class does not have an aide. He has a tutor, we work with him, but I feel like he’s just been abandoned. [/quote]

That’s just wrong.  I don’t know if it’s a lack of money issue but it will only get harder for your first grader.   He has the right via federal law to be tested for any learning issues and plan needs to be made on how to work on these issues.

I wonder if they put a program together for the students who perform the best and call it a gifted program when it’s really a way to teach the smartest students to score way higher than average on these national tests.    How does a middle school do a gifted program every other day?  I can’t imagine that.

Based on you stating that they don’t use aids in classes which is standard in good elementary school and no programs for kids struggling I’d bet you’re state doesn’t compare well with the top states that score well on testing.  [/quote]

We are in a very good district (college town) albeit in a red state. The gifted program requires a minimum wisc of 130 so it is pretty selective. In middle school, they just have gifted class for an hour every other day - it’s not a full day thing anymore. It’s a great program and my older kids have been challenged and love school. I also have a non gifted dc who never did tutoring or enrichment and scored in the 99th percentile in Iowa test in 6th grade - I credit her strong math instruction.

As for my youngest son- he gets about 35%ile on nationally normed tests and has about 95 iq per his neuropsych. He has an IEP for speech only. But his scores are not low enough to merit IEP pull outs - just test accoms (which are silly bc he has no tests yet). I always thought there would be so much for him based on my older kids’ experience - and there’s not. I also always thought the narrative was reversed, but my son has no behaviors (they do have behavior aides but not for every class) or intellectual disability, so he is just kind of stuck.[/quote]

He’s within normal limits of testing and IQ so that’s good.   But the school would be better off focusing to bring students like your son up to what they are truly capable of.  If he’s capable of 35% then he’s capable of 50% and above with better resources.  [/quote]

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