That's because PG==nerd without social skills. You can't be PG if you aren't strange, alienating and just plan weird/off-putting (to use HK's awesome list). I think it also works the other way that if you are strange, alienating and just plan weird/off-putting you must be a genius. It has nothing to do with actual IQ.
The belief that everything 130+ is all the same is something that we've run into as well. A week after we gave DD's psych report to the school we went in for a meeting to discuss. This was a school that we had dealt with for 5 years with DS and I thought I was making some progress but noooooo. 1. they argued that she didn't need an IEP because they didn't want to give every kid an IEP and she didn't need one. 2. they proudly showed me the booklet of extra math that they had made up for her and the 5 other "gifted mathematicians" in her class. I wonder what the probability of 25% of her class being even slightly gifted would be. That might actually be an interesting math topic to dive into....
The school is doing amazing differentiation by giving my kid the opportunity to write 4 sentences instead of 2 and after they finish the grade level math work sheet they can always get another grade level math sheet for an extra challenge. Clearly they don't need differentiation because they aren't interested in any of the extra work that has been offered. Ugggg.
