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Subject Acceleration? (very long)

by Mrs. K - Texas

Mar 15, 2011

We have a gifted son who is currently in 4th grade. He was one grade accelerated in his previous Texas virtual public school and was also allowed to work at his own pace in math and language Arts/Literature. He completed 3rd & 4th grade math last year and within the first 2 months completed 40% of 5th grade. The previous school did an achievement test and found that he was working on a 6th/7th grade level in math and had decided to move him to Pre-Algebra to keep him engaged and challenged. But we had to put him into a local public school and they put him into all 4th grade classes. At first it was all fine but he has been asking for challenging material in math and was told he couldn't have it and that he had to stay at the same pace as the other kids.

We have been advocating for him. The Asst. Superintendent had him take the 5th grade Math TAKS released test and he scored an 84% on it. The Asst. Superintendent was very impressed and said that the district really doesn't ...See MoreWe have a gifted son who is currently in 4th grade. He was one grade accelerated in his previous Texas virtual public school and was also allowed to work at his own pace in math and language Arts/Literature. He completed 3rd & 4th grade math last year and within the first 2 months completed 40% of 5th grade. The previous school did an achievement test and found that he was working on a 6th/7th grade level in math and had decided to move him to Pre-Algebra to keep him engaged and challenged. But we had to put him into a local public school and they put him into all 4th grade classes. At first it was all fine but he has been asking for challenging material in math and was told he couldn't have it and that he had to stay at the same pace as the other kids.

We have been advocating for him. The Asst. Superintendent had him take the 5th grade Math TAKS released test and he scored an 84% on it. The Asst. Superintendent was very impressed and said that the district really doesn't do a good job at providing for the needs of kids like our son. He suggestions was to let our son work on 5th grade material that he hasn't mastered for possible skip to 6th grade next year or some type of summer program in 5th grade for a skip to 6th. He even told the elementary school principal and the middle school (5th/6th) that son will move into next year his suggestions. Both have ignored his suggestions.

Elementary principal says he is getting challenged and didn't even acknowledge his score on the 5th grade TAKS test. We told about him working on 5th grade material in class and how happy he was. The principal said that he doesn't need to work on the stuff yet and both of them agreed he needed to show 100% mastery before he could move on. But, they did say that gifted children wouldn't be the ones to show 100% mastery. confused about this statement, very contradictory. So, nothing for him this year.

Middle school counselor said that by the beginning of next year he would know 90% of 5th grade but they wouldn't even consider moving him up.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

I used to teach in my home I used to teach children in my home. If you can't keep him home yourself is there anyone else who could be with him during the day and monitor his work on the virtual school? A grandparent, aunt, uncle, friend who is a SAH parent, or even a small in-home daycare?

The kids I taught followed my program but I did have one student who just ne...See More

Mar 16, 2011

Sara On 3/15/11, Mrs. K - Texas wrote:

Patience would be my only suggestion sadly - or can you move? Because it can be very difficult and even impossible to make the institution of school move when it doesn't want to. It's easy for the Asst. Superintendent to say things - he doesn't back it up by a sharp command to the Principal to do anything...See More

Mar 18, 2011

Casey Find out if there are any state mandates regarding gifted children. In Indiana, there is a mandate that states we have to challenge our high ability students. We have a 5th grader in our corporation who travels to the middle school to attend a 6th grade class (our first acceleration case). His mom comes and gets him and takes him back and forth eac...See More

Apr 6, 2011

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