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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You still haven't answered the question. What would you do if you found one if these kids in your classroom?[/quote]

I've seen this happen before in DCUM threads on giftedness. The problem is, you want to talk about something different from what everybody else is talking about--and you're getting huffy at the teachers, but some of them may not even realize you're trying to change the subject.

Everybody else here is talking about gifted/highly gifted kids. When teachers complain about PITA parents who think their kids are "gifted," it's clear to most of us that these are the parents who think their 95th pctile kid is different from all the other kids in the class.

You want to talk about that extreme rarity, the 99.99%, profoundly gifted kid. Fine with me--but you can't just assume everybody understood and followed you, or even wanted to follow you, into a new discussion on PG kids. Instead of getting all aggressive ("you still haven't answered the question") and pasting the "misunderstood victim" sign on your forehead (that letter you posted), why don't you help everybody out by acknowledging that you're asking about a very special case, an extreme rarity.  And cut the teachers a break, it's possible some of them have ever even come across a profoundly gifted kid, or maybe once in 5 or 10 years, because as some have pointed out, this kid is probably in a magnet anyway.[/quote]

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