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Rebecca
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Elizabeth wrote:
So, apparently, it doesn't matter how well you write or how creative you are or how passionately you read and write about something, if you bomb the test, you are neither creative nor interested.
I shudder to think of what was spent on these tests...I could have bought the classroom set of TOUCHMATH and we could have all shared it...
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Crazy! Imagine the parent of the child who is not as involved in deciphering the evaluation results as you were, someone who would just sit back and allow the beaurocracy to call the shots.
How sad that this evaluator can change the course of someone's education simply by their diagnosis. I guess the "proof is not in the pudding" according to this woman's standards. It's in the ability to take a test.
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As maddening as this experience has been, perhaps it has been a blessing in disguise. It has been a time for sharpening the focus on Christian's individual, unique self, his gifts, and his beauty; and it has forced reflection on his being God's child, and not the world's.
It has also been an opportunity to give implicit witness to the stregth and love behind your home-education lifestyle to the broader community.
It has also been a chance for all of us to support, pray, and psychically share the weight of the cross with you....for we all will feel the world's skepticism in one form or another at one point or another.....We should not have to be micro-analyzed as we are and live under the pressure of producing results. It is wrong.
I wanted you to know I feel the pressure as well and suffer with you in His name. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.  
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"God does not ask you to be successful. He asks you to be faithful."
--Mother Teresa
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What Nina said
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alicegunther wrote:
The flaws of educational bureaucracy in a nutshell.
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Here, here, I second Alice!
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I'm sorry to hear it was such a waste of time and money. I second what everyone else has said. You eloquently explained your son to that evaluator and she just ignored you for some statistical nonsense. I'm a big numbers person, but know that numbers don't always tell the whole story especially when something is dynamic like a person as opposed to something static. Hugs to you.
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In my other life I was a psychologist. I learn to administer tests and intrepret them and i have to say I hate standardize testing. I think is so easy to label somebody and to box them in a little neat category. But the test results can be so removed from the person's real life capabilities.
I am so sorry you had to go through this.
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Elizabeth,
I am so sorry you didn't get more useful stuff from the eval.
I wonder if her response about the blog vs. the test has to do with most of her clients wanting to get services from the schools or accommodations in classes? As well as the "If it's not on a test, it doesn't count...." I'm truly sorry your evaluator was so rigid.
I personally haven't had this problem as my information was usually included along with the test scores. Well, except when KE was tested at the age of (I think) three or maybe four. The tester didn't believe me when I said she was bright. She was pegged as Educable Mentally Retarded. A few years later and the same tester scored her nonverbal IQ at 130 or so and her verbal at 106 or 108.
Also, any ps student this evaluator has tested is really used to taking tests wihch your ds is presumably not that used to. It seems to me that non-test information -- even anecdotal -- would be even more important in your son's eval.
Again, I am sorry.
In Christ,
Deborah
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