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Subject: Re: "Talented and Gifted" program (the effects)
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 12:37:08 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 12:37:08 1984
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When I was a wee little boy I was in the New York City public
schools.  My first teacher was a very decent sort.
Unfortunately, she noticed I was smart (I was a show-off, like
many smart kids.)  I was then placed in what were called IGC
(intellectually gifted children) classes for four years.  Now,
I'd have been a problem kid in any class.  I hated sitting for
long hours and I still do.  But these classes . . .  !  The IGC
classes were given the nastiest teachers it has ever been my
misfortune to encounter.  I hated the classes.  I hated school.

Look very carefully at any class your "gifted" child is placed
into.  Ask yourself: is the teacher knowlegeable and competent?
Is the teacher kind?  What's really taught?  Are they teaching
intellectual snobbery?  Are they just amusing kids who really
know all that's in the next three years ciriculuum?  Remember:
these classes are often the revenge of the stupid on the smart.

				Randolph Fritz