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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  That's one of the reasons that GT programs were created -- to engage kids who have disengaged.  I guess APS doesn't see GT that way.  [/quote]

There is a difference between disengaged and won't engage. A child who is disengaged because the material is too easy but who will engage when presented with something more challenging will be found eligible, and seeing how they respond to this kind of additional challenge is typically part of the evaluation process. A child who is disengaged generally and refuses to engage with more challenging material won't be found eligible because they can't know if the child has the baseline knowledge and ability to access more advanced material if the child refuses to demonstrate that baseline knowledge/ability. And really, what would the child get from GT services anyway if they refuse to actually engage with any of it?

I tend to agree with the other posters who say there's probably more to the story that OP isn't sharing. First, the list of tests OP provided goes beyond what APS administers, which suggests her child has had an outside evaluation for something. Second, a sufficient unwillingness to engage at school that they would find the child ineligible for services in any subject area (as opposed to, for instance, only finding him eligible only in subject areas he particularly likes and thus is willing to do the work, even though he may be capable in all of the subject areas) tends to suggest there may be something else going on that needs to be evaluated and treated to allow the child to access school curriculum; I don't know if OP has gone through that evaluation process or what it might have found. APS GT teachers get lots of training in working with 2e kids, so if they know about a potentially confounding factor such as ADHD, dyslexia, etc., that might otherwise obscure a child's academic talents, they can account for that in the evaluation process (e.g., for a child who struggles with focusing on written work product due to ADHD, they might have a discussion with the child about a book they read rather than reviewing writing exercises about the book). But first they need to know the issue is there before they can account for it.[/quote]

I agree that there is probably more to the story, and that PP has posted in other threads.  However, more generally, you are defending that a well-run GT program should properly decline to accept a child with a WISC of 158 because of disengagement with school work?  Because the school has failed the child so far, a reputable GT program should continue to fail the child?  That doesn't make sense to me.  [/quote]

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