Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wu1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!cmcl2!rocky2!cubsvax!wu1!rf From: rf@wu1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: "Talented and Gifted" program (the effects) Message-ID: <238@wu1.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 12:37:08 EST Article-I.D.: wu1.238 Posted: Wed Feb 1 12:37:08 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 02:22:36 EST References: <525@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: Western Union Telegraph, Mahwah, NJ Lines: 18 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