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My DS9 complains that anything involving handwriting is too hard, though the content itself is not. His handwriting is improving, but it's not great and it's work for him. You'll have to investigate more about what "too hard" means.

Another thought. When I was in school and not at all challenged, I didn't realize I was any different from the other kids, which made things kind of confusing. So when classmates didn't understand things or didn't know answers, I would not raise my hand to answer because if no one knew the answer, I must not be right. And for whatever reason, it never sunk in that i really did know all the material, even if it turned out that my answers were right. I doubted myself through college. I now realize that gifted people do learn differently, and I was probably the only one like me in grade school. Since I thought everyone else was just like me, it created all kinds of issues. Not saying the is going on with your DD, but it can't hurt to explain how GT kids think differently (only need to hear something once to learn it, eg).

ETA: my DS9 is also not very self-motivated, but he easily rose to challenges of being grade-skipped and then transferred to an accelerated program for HG kids. Parents know their kids best. With our kiddo, we knew he needed more and so we sought out other programs. He probably seemed happy to teachers before we made these changes because he is a teacher pleaser, but we knew from the work he brought home that he wasn't learning new material.