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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid got a 160 on the NNAT2, v high Cogat, and a 158 on the WISC-IV. Denied admission to GT program at ASFS because "he doesn't seem to be interested in school." Face palm. We supplement at home, but it irks me that lesser qualified kids are sucking up all the resources and oxygen and are paraded around by their parents as in the GT club. Why does APS allow this at a public school? Let's stipulate that I'm bitter, to avoid the nasty mom club argument that uses that phrase like a weapon. Yep, I'm bitter that my kid is not interested in school because the administration doesn't do its job in providing a good education. [/quote]

If your child's scores are really that high, you need to appeal at the county level. The Gifted Supervisor will turn over the decision with those scores.[/quote]

If the child's scores were this high and he/she didn't have a 2E issue going on (which might make them hard to manage in a classroom), I think a professional would understand why he/she was disengaged in ES and in MS became more engaged. This child was likely ready for middle school material back in 2nd or 3rd grade and spent three or four years reading their own material during class and still getting straight As, so not disengaged just....done. As an adult (with college education knowledge) would you like to sit through high school classes again, year after year, all day in the school year, doing worksheets?  
I understand gifted programs, but these scores place this child in the 99.99% for IQ scores. What kind of elementary school education would have been engaging? Probably one that supplemented middle school work starting in 2nd or 3rd grade and moved on to high school stuff around 5th or 6th. Not what the current public gifted programs offer. [/quote]

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