[Ohiogift] Gifted Schooling

[anngift at aol.com]

Actually, it isn't the world so much that rejects genius. It is America. I believe Checker Finn will be coming out with a new book soon describing the how a number of different countries are acting to support gifted children. The U.S. effort, at the national level, at this point, is non-existent. State efforts vary. I'm not sure I'll ever fathom why gifted children are held in such low regard that we intentionally hold them back as state and national policy. But when state government officials decide it is in the "public interest" to deny gifted staff to support their needs, it sends a pretty clear message to gifted families. 
 

 --Ann

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward A. Hawks III <eah3rd at windstream.net>
To: 'Katie Thurston' <kthurston61 at gmail.com>
Cc: Ohiogift <Ohiogift at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:36 am
Subject: Re: [Ohiogift] Gifted Schooling



If we are to have genius,
we must put up with the inconvenience of genius, (aka … appropriate services to meet their intellectual, social, and emotional needs)
a thing the world will never do.
It wants geniuses, but
would like them to be
just like other people. (aka … sitting in regular ed. classrooms bored, underachieving with no differentiation)
 
-George Moore
 
Edward A. Hawks, III, M.Ed.












Gifted Intervention Specialist / Exceptional Student Education
Kent City School District












“Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and
ultimately, connect us.” –Robert Redford, President & Founder,
Sundance Institute
 
 
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From: ohiogift-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:ohiogift-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Katie Thurston
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 11:25 PM
To: anngift at aol.com
Cc: Ohiogift at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Subject: [Ohiogift] Gifted Schooling
 
The more I check in, the more inclined I am to think that an idea my sister and I discussed in the past is worth resurrecting:  that of starting a school for gifted children. It is daunting one, but the more I ponder it, the more it seems a viable alternative to grappling with the system already in place, and the politics that go with it.
 
My experience of the gifted education available locally is that much is costly, or just non-existent. My son's school mailed his report card home. It's riddled with "F"s... and while I'll assume some responsibility, He and the school can shoulder the rest. On a larger scale, society should as well. It seems most people appreciate the inventions and innovations gifted minds bring to being, but like art, while it's appreciated, precious few actually want to help fund it; this is an unfortunate state of affairs.
 
Katie T.
 
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