"She probably also doesn't get much recognition for her giftedness at school and is treated as mildly gifted if at all but you see a kid with very advanced thinking skills partticularly abstract reasoning and big picture vision...2 qualities that are totally off the radar in most elementary schools"

Grinity you hit the nail on the head. It's so frustrating how they just don't see her. We're fighting to get her into the gifted program because she isn't scoring out well enough on their intelectual checklist scale. Basically they're saying she doesn't act gifted enough. Which is ridiculous.

Things at school have improved since she started taking medication for her ADHD. Shes completing assignments on time and actively participating in class now.