Are there schools that don't do this, gifted or otherwise? It was pretty common in my experience. Teachers might even give some kind of small reward to kids who got 100% on a test, the best essays were regularly read aloud (and credit given to the author), etc.
I even had an Algebra II teacher who would post the recent top test scores and their owners in a corner of the board. It was one of the few classes where I wasn't regularly on the top, either. Maybe I should have been doing some of that homework after all? Nah... close enough.
I don't see any problem with publicly acknowledging good performances. I would have a problem with publicly calling out poor ones. "Praise in public, correct in private" applies here.
I agree with Dude on this one. As long as it's in elementary school. In Middle schol and High School, the other kids might ridicule you for being so smart but most of the teachers are doing it for motivation. As long as the teacher is not sharing everyone's grade, I would be OK with that.
If your kid does not handle well with praise, you should talk to the teacher. And talk to your kid too that nothing's wrong with being smart and it's something to be proud of. (My DD wants to know who gets 100 if not her and that gives her motivation. She would relish on being the smartest one in her class. I do not want that in middle school tough because it will put undue pressure on the kid.)
