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To the editor:
At the last school board meeting, Mrs. Massie, Chairman of the Board, said, “We need to be aware of how the public perceives our programs.” As an exthird grade teacher of several gifted and many talented children, as a parent, and as a volunteer teacher in the “Gifted and Talented Program” this year, I would like to share my perceptions.
The superintendent referred to the Gifted and Talented Program as “low profile.” It is. So low-profile that most parents and many students have no idea of what is happening.
It is ironic that while I was writing this letter this afternoon, I received a telephone call from a former student of mine. She was a part of the Gifted and Talented program in 1961-82, a talented artist, who benefited immensely from the program, declaring the following year that she wanted to be a writer and illustrator when she grew up. We exchanged hello’s and brought each other up to date. Then I asked her if she’d been doing any art this year in the Gifted and Talented Program. There was a slight pause before she asked me delightedly, “They gonna put that back in again?”
It’s a good question. In 1982-83, the previous Gifted
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