That teacher could not produce a single sample of independent writing from DD (that was more than 2 sentences) but insisted that DD is fine and that a lot of gifted kids have poor writing, she would grow out of the problem, and no services would be needed. Meanwhile she would tell her to go home and write multi-page research papers. In the eval that I made the school do, there was one short observation in that class and the report states that the teacher lectured DD about how she needs to get on task, and DD burst into tears. And the school didn't think this was a problem? My blood boils every time I think about that place.
