Had a long phone meeting today with the APEX (gifted/talented) teacher. Looking at my kid's Stanford scores (refer to this post), she can't help me. Because Stanford 10 measures many different areas, while TCAP gives an overall score. They rely on an overall score of 90-95%.
She also told me that my kids are testing high on the periodic tests the school had given them (not an annual test, but tests in areas like math and reading). My daughter is not in 3rd grade, and while her math scores put her in the 94 percentile and she is reading at a 5th grade level in 2nd grade, she isn't old enough to be eligible. Ok, fine. She can't consider my son's 3rd grade scores because he didn't finish the "measurement" tests they have been giving. I asked if the questions he finished were correct, and she said yes. But since he didn't finish the test, he only scored 47th percentile. None of the other children in his class didn't finish the test. I was like...so...hmm...That's stupid. All she could say was that maybe he stopped and/or was confused about whether or not he should go on. I didn't tell her that but what the heck happened with him that didn't happen with the rest of the kids? So he is stuck with a 47 score, and therefore not eligible for the talented class based on that, even if she could pull some strings to get him in on his test scores, and she'll have to wait until he takes the TCAP and re-evaluate him next year. They don't recieve the TCAP scores until the end of this school year and therefore, he is where he is.
Really? This sounds very similar to the way our government runs finances.
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