I am not saying they don't exist, I am sure they do, but I also don't picture a class teeming with kids like her.
I fully agree. They just aren't getting the picture.
They don't have any gifted programming until second grade or third when they have told me she will most likely "even out" and be at a typical level.
I always dislike that justification for the status quo. Take one batch of skeptical teachers and school admins, season with light reading on "regression to the mean" and possibly apocryphal anecdotes on PG-tested young kids becoming completely normal within years, and voila!
I wish I could offer useful advice. Knowing that someone is wrong doesn't mean you can necessarily get them to do the right thing. Here it sounds like proving their excuses wrong may not give you critical mass to change their in-place GT programming. It's a bad situation, but I hope for the best.
