In any given year, part of my son's teachers will tell me that in all the years they've been teaching, they haven't taught a child as brilliant as mine. Other teachers will believe he is in special ed because his IQ is at the lowest end of the scale and that I am deluded. Others will think he's an average kid who is lazy and gaming the system. It's almost like the three blind men describing the elephant - they only see a small piece of a picture and decide that is the entire picture.
It is tougher in elementary school where the one teacher's opinion of your child is what you must contend with all year. In midschool, it gets better with more teachers meaning more chances of at least one of them "getting" the whole picture.
