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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.

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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

Django
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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.

FM
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. 

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FM

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.

 

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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.

Prashad

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