chay, I think you're absolutely right about teachers looking for a child that fits academically into that mold. I often wonder if my daughter would have been identified earlier if she had a gifted education teacher for a homeroom teacher like she did last year. I'm still chomping at the bit about whether or not my DS is 2e but he flies between acting like a 2 year old and coming out with things astonishingly mature so often I can't tell!