Dr. Michael Postma
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first heard Dec 2017
last heard Jul 2022
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And in many cases, identification tools that actually work, a.k.a.
those that are done by licensed psychologists in the field of gifted or having gifted backgrounds, are not being accepted by school districts.
in favor of their own internal testing where usually you have assessments done by folks that don't understand who the child is and how they operate.
And again, you know, school districts can't afford intellectual assessments.
And that's where you really have to go because you have to understand that these kids will score in a discrepant manner.
They'll have highs, they'll have lows.
Then you have to look in and examine those highs and lows in correlation and see what is this comprised of?
Where do I need to go with this when I'm seeing such a low versus such a high?
That's what is required.
And for a school to be able to handle a child like that, they need to further investigate into who these children are and what they represent.
I can go on and on about this, but if teachers are not given the opportunity to learn, they're not given the opportunity to go out and really participate in workshops and trainings that really teach them who the children are and how to reach them.
that pattern is going to stay the same.
We have three kids at home here.
They're all teenagers now, but not a single one of them made it through school.
And, you know, they made it up through into middle school.
High school was very difficult.
I have one that's homebound with high school right now.
The other two are pursuing GEDs just because they couldn't make it in the system.
And that's not always the school's fault either.
Sometimes it's that sensory processing stuff that just kind of overwhelms them and they can't be in those types of environments.
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