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- From: petel@sequent.com (Pete Lancashire)
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- Subject: Smart kids (Was Re: Magnet schools)
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 22:23:19 GMT
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- roberts@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Eric Roberts) writes:
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- >I am not talking about everage children. There are those who know
- >advanced calculus before they ever enter high school.
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- >The interrelational problems between those children and their classmates
- >are still greater.
-
- Or what about this kid, in a school where (s)he is put down by his, peers,
- and in some cases by his parents, because he would not 'fit-in'. A kid
- I was a mentor to this summer, (est IQ over 135) didn't want to get good
- grades because he felt that he would not have any friends, and he did not
- want to be a 'nurd and geek' ,his words, Also he had to make a choise between
- basketball EVERYNIGHT of the week or homework, the school (big into
- sports) and his parents felt that his basketball was more important and
- these are direct observations and conservations with the school and his
- parents, not my opion.
-
- His math teacher was the only one who seemed to care, but she was new,
- and (I can't blame her) didn't want to risk loosing her job. Both his
- history and english teachers were basketball coaches.
-
- -pete
- Pete Lancashire
- petel@sequent.com
-