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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a fall birthday child.  We paid for private for 2 years and transferred child in at 2nd when they don't look at age.  Problem solved.  Its amazing the age range in our classroom.  Its really an unfair advantage if a child a year-18 months gets 99% test scores while mine gets in the mid 90's so she misses the gifted programs and they get in and the true difference is age. Testing and other things should be age normed.  If I held my child back they'd be in gifted and 99% but I prefer to have them age appropriate.[/quote]

I am confused by this.  It sounds like the age appropriate class for your kid is the one a year younger than the one they're in.  Otherwise why would you need to skirt the rules so they "didn't look at age"?

If you intentionally skirted the rules, then you can't complain that your kid is being compared to older kids.  That's absurd.  Asking for your child to be allowed to be in third grade gifted classes, when they have the age, maturity and skills of a gifted second grader is very selfish.  You made your bed, at the expense of your child, now you need to lie in it. [/quote]

My child missed the cut off by 2 weeks.  Holding him back with kids up to two years younger is not age appropriate.  We could have gone either way and choose to go with the higher grade.  My child has the age, maturity and skills of a gifted kid.  Our gifted starts later and only takes 2-3 kids per entire school so mine making in the high 90's isn't good enough for gifted.  If we held back child would be really bored in school given how painfully slow the curriculum is.  Even at a grade level, he's complaining its too slow and wanting to learn higher level math (but he wouldn't get that in gifted either).  I didn't skirt the rules.  A private school took my child and at 2nd age doesn't count.  Years later it was the right choice.  Plus, gifted early on in elementary school doesn't mean much as not all get slots in middle school.[/quote]

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