ksazma posted:

My son is currently in the 8th grade. However, he was invited to participate in a program starting next semester which will allow him to earn his high school diploma and an associate at the same time. I guess my biggest concern is transportation since the school promises to tailor the program to the individual need of each child (since each gifted student take different subjects). I think it is a wonderful opportunity to have an associate at 18. What are your thoughts on this? Pros and cons. He is doing the PERT test right now.

Is that an Australian test ??

In CT kids take the Connecticut Mastery Test which provides information of their achievement.

http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/...?a=2748&q=334702

PERT test 

http://www.perttest.com/pert-faqs

Django posted:

ksazma posted:

My son is currently in the 8th grade. However, he was invited to participate in a program starting next semester which will allow him to earn his high school diploma and an associate at the same time. I guess my biggest concern is transportation since the school promises to tailor the program to the individual need of each child (since each gifted student take different subjects). I think it is a wonderful opportunity to have an associate at 18. What are your thoughts on this? Pros and cons. He is doing the PERT test right now.

Is that an Australian test ??

In CT kids take the Connecticut Mastery Test which provides information of their achievement.

http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/...?a=2748&q=334702

We used to have the FCAT and now we have the FSA since the Common Core isn't working for us here. My son always score 5 (highest) and two years ago he missed a perfect score in one subject by one point while scoring perfect scores in the other two subjects.

Gifted students need a tailored program because they sometimes get bored with the regular school program that they find not challenging enough and they rebel. You don't want that to happen.

You have to be careful with students who are extremely smart in high school...sometimes it's good...sometimes not so good

Congrats Kaz...whatever choice is made, I am sure it will be for the better

For an update, my son did very well on this test. We are still struggling with the transportation challenge and will take a few days before we make a final decision. Hopefully we can come up with a solution because I think it is a wonderful opportunity.

Prashad posted:

Gifted students need a tailored program because they sometimes get bored with the regular school program that they find not challenging enough and they rebel. You don't want that to happen.

I agree with this Prash. The boy is currently taking three high school classes and he is still bored. I blocked out the bum's name. 

RiffRaff posted:

You have to be careful with students who are extremely smart in high school...sometimes it's good...sometimes not so good

Congrats Kaz...whatever choice is made, I am sure it will be for the better

Thanks Riff.

Congrats, Ksaz. Looks like you have a genius. Boys usually inherit their moms' genes. Don't beat me up now. 

Congratulations Ksazma. When he is a young man make sure that he does a professional program in University/ or technical college.

Leonora posted:

Congrats, Ksaz. Looks like you have a genius. Boys usually inherit their moms' genes. Don't beat me up now. 

Thanks Leonora. I will never object to any compliment given to my babies' mama.

Prashad posted:

Congratulations Ksazma. When he is a young man make sure that he does a professional program in University/ or technical college.

The boy told his gifted coordinator that he wants to be a scientist. Whatever that means.  

Here are my son's scores for this test;

Math: Required 114, He scored 150

Reading: Required 106, He scored 116

Writing: Required 103, He scored 128

Check out the chart below. He scored at the top of the spectrum for Math. His writing score was decent. However, he is surprised he scored so low on reading especially since reads all day. Nonetheless, he has passing scores in all three subjects and I am proud of him for being able to do this at 14. But life isn't perfect and because of the transportation challenge, he may have to forego this wonderful opportunity.

Very good. Prashad was not a good student until he went to university and had to pay for his own studies. Then failure was not an option.

As a teenager I had the natural ability to read any history text book no matter how large and remember every date. So I would study for two weeks before State history exams and get top marks over people who had prepared for months and years . But in University it was different. There I had to really work hard to get top marks.

So wuh happen u decide fo not work hard?

I had to work hard I was paying with my own money.

Prashad posted:

Very good. Prashad was not a good student until he went to university and had to pay for his own studies. Then failure was not an option.

Which university did you go to ?

The University of real life.