So schools who aren't meeting the needs of gifted kids are sometimes very quick to jump place the blame on a diagnosis, to distract from the idea that they aren't really providing a particular child with an education, only daycare.
Active boys get a lot of attention paid to their activity, and literal little boys get a lot of attention paid to their lack of social understanding. When the school pointed out that he wasn't able to draw conslusion about reading, I jumped to the conclusion that they are gearing up to see if you'll buy an AS diagnosis.
Grinity, I agree the schools sometimes seem to jump to suggesting problems in kids that are not fitting in, but at least in my experience it hasn't been out of any actual 'sense' that they are not doing their jobs!!
Seriouly, I think they are probably mostly genuinely concerned teachers out there, but oblivious to the differences in students at the upper end. Sigh.
