Reply #168: So that you can pick apart whatever I say?

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No thanks. I asked you what you knew about gifted children. Your reply said it all. Testing, testing, testing..... the only person that testing has any value for is the teacher who's got a classroom full of kids they don't have time to know. All studies have shown that parents and care givers are much better at knowing the rate and level their children learn at than teachers. There are far too many kids who are never identified as gifted due to an enormous amount of factors in their lives and because some insist that only this test or only that test will tell. Many are gifted, yet have unidentified learning disabilities that could be overcome with the proper therapy and enable their gifts to shine through.

You ignored my son and his experience. Without a test, you apparently know nothing.

They stopped the test after three hours when they couldn't find his ceiling......then "labeled" him in the 99.9 percentile.