actually it is two standard deviations in reading, but bear in mind that last time he was undiagnosed and had no accomodations. This is just on that particular test. We've not done any other achievement tests since last year.
He likes having his aide and going to the resource room. he says it is much less quiet and that it's necessary to have her redirect.
I think he'll grow out of the need, too. he needs to learn to attend after spending 4 years in public ed inside his imagination.
We are working on that.
Followup to the acceleration, while a couple of months ago we had been led to be lieve it would happen, today we were informed it won't, not even a subject acceleration.
Since there were other kids in the class who scored higher on this achievement test, they feel he's in a "good fit" to stay with his age group peers.
I can pound my head into a wall if there was one sturdy enough to handle the level of my frustration.
Just because those other kids acheived higher, does NOT mean they are gifted!!! Just because he scored lower does NOT mean hes typical.
Frankly, if you interpolate his scores to above grade level in reading it was 50%ile 8th grade. Math was 50%ile 6th grade.
Those were HUGE gains given he's not been EXPOSED to those levels of math and reading in the classroom.
It makes me sick that they are patting themselves on the back over his gains and they have no clue that what it really means is he's capable of learning very rapidly and they are still going to give it to him drip by tedious drip.
blech.
shudder.
breathe breathe breathe
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