![]() In addition - housing costs are insane - folks have been ready to pay big $$ for subpar homes, and I don't want to compete with them. Let's just consider this a medical condition and not debate this any further. I find Seattle fairly depressing - specially in the winter, early spring and late fall. FWIW, I would pick BSD over LWSD, because I know for certain that LWSD won't even offer acceleration in the general classroom.As the pandemic continues, we increasingly have the option for working from anywhere in the US. One good thing about both BDS and LWSD is that they're both really high-performing districts so even the "standard" curriculum is above average. You would then have a much greater chance entering a private school without needing ELL services, and could also test for the gifted programs. Learning a lot of language in a short time is pretty challenging all on its own. To be honest, I think it might be worth considering just doing the regular program and intensively studying English. My daughter has ADHD and SPD and she could certainly qualify for the private gifted schools, but they wouldn't be able to handle her special needs. You are definitely doing to find better ELL services in the public schools. LWSD wouldn't accept my daughter's WISC-IV taken in English by a local neurologist what the district sometimes uses, so I'd say it'll be a steep uphill battle. #186083 - 03/27/14 02:45 AM Re: Recommendations for Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond area ![]() I mean, she scored at or above 99% across the board, and the only way she would reasonably be expected to score lower now is if somebody screws up the testing, the whole re-testing business is just a lot of pointless BS at this point. The bureaucracy about testing and transferring in this area will make your head spin, or possibly even explode. It's illogical and ridiculous, especially considering we also have very recent IQ and achievement testing scores that are equally high. But she took the "wrong form" of the CogAT according to the district we are moving into, and they claim they are going to require her to re-test with a different form of the CogAT in August. We are having transfer issues right now because DD took the CogAT and ITBS in one district with scores high enough she should get into any gifted program anywhere. But proving your kid is qualified may require jumping through some pretty specific and slightly outrageous hoops. One of the good things is that they can't apparently waitlist qualified kids anymore. There are new laws that are causing all the local programs to change their requirements and procedures. But they ALL require the CogAT and ITBS, and not always even the same form of it. Northshore seems to be a little more flexible. I believe Issaquah's requirements are similar. Bellevue and Lake Washington both require reading scores in the 98th % on both the CogAT and the ITBS to get into the program (and 98th on the CogAT only gets you into the one-day-a-week pull-out in Lake Washington). ![]() Bellevue has a good program and I did know a couple ELL kids in the gifted program, but because of their high cut-offs for English reading comprehension you might have difficulty testing in.
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