[Ohiogift] Praise for the proposed revisions to the Operating Standards

[Sharon Kitchen]

Glad for the clarification because while I was 'thinking' it was sarcasm, I
wasn't sure and was afraid it would be misconstrued.


On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM, <anngift at aol.com> wrote:

> While I appreciate your dry wit, Mark, I'm not sure that the committee
> will read anything more than your subject line. We have to be a little
> careful about how we correspond with state board members. They might
> misconstrue wit as disrespect or, worse, not understand the sarcasm. Also,
> people do need to understand that our battle is with the state board of
> education not the state legislature. I've seen a lot of references to
> legislators in recent posts.
>
> Not trying to cramp anyone's style or be overly cranky. Just wanted give a
> few pointers. But please everyone, keep those emails going. I am hearing
> from board members, so I know that your voices are being heard.
>
> -- Ann
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: giftedtchr <giftedtchr at aol.com>
> To: ohiogift <ohiogift at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Sent: Sun, Sep 8, 2013 12:56 pm
> Subject: [Ohiogift] Praise for the proposed revisions to the Operating
> Standards
>
>  Sent to everyone on the committee list:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thank you for your kind attention, and your service to our state.
>  I am a father and a grandfather of academically gifted children and
> grandchildren, so it may be of some surprise that I write not to pan but
> to praise the proposed revisions to the Operating Standards for Identifying
> and Serving Gifted Students. (rule 3301-51-15)
>  The annual academic growth of all students is a value held dear to us,
> for all can learn; and the proposed operating standards must certainly be
> designed to affect the greatest possible academic growth for gifted
> students.
>  While we mandate minimum hours of direct services for struggling
> students, the proposed operating standards eliminate minimum hours of
> service, but gifted students are different from struggling students, so
> certainly they need nothing designed specifically for them. It must be in
> the best interest of academically gifted students in Ohio to have no time
> mandated to help meet their needs.
>  Yes the physically gifted students – the athletes – are mandated by
> their teachers, their coaches, to experience many hours of specialized
> services per week, but academically gifted students are different from
> physically gifted students, so certainly they need nothing designed
> specifically for them.
> It must be in the best interest of academically gifted students in Ohio to
> have no specialized program or curriculum mandated to help meet their needs.
>  The musically, and artistically gifted students have specially trained
> teachers to help meet their individual needs for musical and artistic
> growth, but academically gifted students are different from musically and
> artistically gifted students, so certainly they need no professionally
> qualified teachers who understand their nature and needs. It must be in the
> best interest of academically gifted students in Ohio to have no specially
> trained teachers mandated to help meet their needs.
>  The government of the State of Ohio recognizes the value of our gifted
> students, and bemoans the fact that a full third of our college graduates
> move somewhere else to begin their careers. Ohio is experiencing “brain
> drain,” but certainly moving away from, rather than toward, mandating a free,
> appropriate, public, education for academically gifted students is what
> will encourage those students to stay in Ohio and plan to send their own
> children to our public schools, rather than fleeing to Indiana or Texas. It
> must be in the best interest of academically gifted students in Ohio to
> ignore the needs of the very young people we want to keep from fleeing the
> state at their earliest opportunity.
>  And finally, while annual academic growth of all students is a value
> parroted by us, for all can learn, we hold preeminent the value of closing
> the achievement gap. We parrot growth for all, but we know in the darkest
> recesses or our being that such gap closure is not possible if EVERY
> student, (especially the academically gifted) receives a free, APPROPRIATE,
> public, education. It must be in the best interest of the State of Ohio,
> and academically gifted students in Ohio to IGNORE their needs, and provide
> for them the LEAST appropriate education, that we may close the achievement
> gap, and create a society of equally ignorant citizens.
>  Therefore, I can only praise the proposed revisions to the Operating
> Standards for Identifying and Serving Gifted Students in Ohio.       But
> when will a time come for our children such as now
>  Grandpa (PawPaw Mark) Bohland
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-- 
Sharon Kitchen, Gifted Supervisor
Madison-Champaign ESC
1512 South U.S. Highway 68
Urbana, OH  43078
937-215-5581
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