I think the issue is that teachers often believe that high IQ means high school performance and/or that all gifted kids have to be social misfits. Kids that aren't whizzing through the assigned worksheets with ease and enthusiasm can't possibly be gifted. Kids that are able to blend in with their peers socially probably aren't gifted because they aren't geeky/weird/whatever enough.
I'm pretty good at picking out kids like DS who scream gifted from their core but I still managed to be a bit blindsided when we got DD's scores. I'm also a lot more timid after being pretty far off on one kid, I still think he's 2e but recent testing says otherwise. The parents are in total denial about the LD's and commenting that I suspect the WISC scores were an underestimate isn't going to improve anything. Guess I just need to accept that I'm not perfect
