<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>A<font size="2">ctually, 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. </font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">
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To: 'Katie Thurston' <kthurston61@gmail.com><br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:">If we are to have genius,</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:">we must put up with the inconvenience of genius, <span style="color:#C00000">(aka … appropriate services to meet their intellectual, social, and emotional needs)</span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:432.05pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:">a thing the world will never do.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:">It wants geniuses, but</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:">would like them to be</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:">just like other people. <span style="color:#C00000">(aka … sitting in regular ed. classrooms bored, underachieving with no differentiation)</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:">-George Moore</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">Edward A. Hawks, III, M.Ed.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:">“Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:">ultimately, connect us.” –Robert Redford, President & Founder,</span></div>
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From: <a removedlink__1130793561__href="mailto:ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a> [<a removedlink__1130793561__href="mailto:ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu?">mailto:ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>] On Behalf Of Katie Thurston<br>
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<div class="MsoPlainText">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.</div>
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<div class="MsoPlainText">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.</div>
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