So they have all kinds of kids like him, but they've never had a K student in gifted before? Obviously they don't have all kinds of kids like him, then.
One thing many people don't understand is that while 90% is ten out of 100, and 99% is one out of 100, >99.9% can be anything from one in 1000 to one in a million or more. They may see other kids with scores that top out the tests, but once you top out, there's no differentiation between "barely" and "over the moon". And an "over the moon" kid demonstrably needs different things to thrive than a "barely" kid.
We were fortunate to have teachers, starting in preschool, who recognized that DS was something they had never seen in all their years of teaching -- partly because he wandered around the preschool reading absolutely everything to them, and had no filter to tell him not to.
