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From: nazgul@apollo.uucp (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Universities, and high school education
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Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 18:08:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 18:08:51 1986
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Reply-To: nazgul@apollo.UUCP (Kee Hinckley)
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In article <2220@jhunix.UUCP> ins_avrd@jhunix.UUCP (Victoria Rosly D'ull) writes:
> (Linda writes:)
> 
> 	Some people do.  I dropped out of high school after two deadly dull
> years of getting B's and A's without doing *any* work or learning very much
> at all.  I had two distinct kinds of teachers; ones who thought I was brilliant
> and let me go to the library and read, and ones who thought I was bratty and
> yelled at me for staring out the window.  Johns Hopkins, which had a program
> (now more or less defunct, I think, since the professor who ran it retired)
> for testing gifted children, accepted me as an ordinary freshman when I was 
> fourteen.  I still go to the library and read a lot, and I'm getting mostly
> B's nowadays, but here I am LEARNING.

I've seen statistics that claim that as many as 50% of high-school dropouts
are gifted+talented kids who either didn't conform or just couldn't deal with
the boredom.  Back in the seventies (that sounds weird) there was a big push
to make special programs for G&T kids, but I think a lot of it has died down.
It takes too many teachers and too much money to support them in a normal
school environment.  Of couse the same programs that benefit them would also
benefit "normal" kids - individual attention and special programs helps 
everyone, but no one seems to want to put the money into it.  Sigh.

                                                       -kee
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                         ...decvax!wanginst!apollo!nazgul

    Little Bo-Peep
    Has lost her sheep,
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    They'll all, face to face,
    Meet in parallel space,
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