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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";layout-grid-mode:line'>If we are to have genius,</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";layout-grid-mode:line'>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'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:432.05pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";layout-grid-mode:line'>a thing the world will never do.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";layout-grid-mode:line'>It wants geniuses, but</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";layout-grid-mode:line'>would like them to be</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";layout-grid-mode:line'>just like other people. <span style='color:#C00000'>(aka … sitting in regular ed. classrooms bored, underachieving with no differentiation)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";layout-grid-mode:line'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";layout-grid-mode:line'>-George Moore</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Edward A. Hawks, III, M.Ed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=5 width=506 style='width:271.9pt' noshade style='color:black' align=left></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Gifted Intervention Specialist <b>/</b> Exceptional Student Education<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kent City School District<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><hr size=5 width=507 style='width:272.4pt' noshade style='color:red' align=left></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ultimately, connect us.” –Robert Redford, President & Founder,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sundance Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu [mailto:ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Katie Thurston<br>Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 11:25 PM<br>To: anngift@aol.com<br>Cc: Ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<br>Subject: [Ohiogift] Gifted Schooling<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p 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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p 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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Katie T.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Ohiogift mailing list<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="mailto:Ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/ohiogift"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/ohiogift</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>