...she is just 'an average kid' as the teacher says - teacher said she isn't convinced about the report and that she has other really gifted kids in the class, thereby saying she isnt the brightest so why am i hounding her type of response.
In general, I'd say that teachers are not very good at identifying who is and isn't the "really gifted" among their students. Teachers, and this is a generalization, tend to view the most compliant, convergent, high achieving kids as the most gifted when they may not be gifted at all but rather simply high achievers who fit the bill of what school has to offer. Have you ever read this article on the difference btwn high achievers and gifted kids, the latter of whom may not fit into school well at all:
http://www.giftededucation.org.nz/documents/high-achievers-pdf.pdf ?
