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I agree that all of that is a huge issue but I think what RRD is getting at is that teachers aren't even identifying the ones that are doing those things. Given that, there is no hope that they are going to figure out the less obvious ones that you bring up.

In our limited experience the teachers were the last ones to figure it out. We had several hockey coaches and other parents make comments but never a teacher. I had kids come up to me and tell me all about how smart DS was. Meanwhile the teachers complained about him constantly and he had barely passing marks. We had MANY discussions with them about his behavior but the g word was never brought up. They pushed for us to test for ADHD and looked STUNNED when we brought back a 14 page psych report with gifted/LD instead. This is a kid that grocery store clerks have commented on. You can't find it if you don't look and in the schools we've dealt with so far this isn't on their radar.