LA Times profiles Dalton Sargent, 15, who attends Blair, in a story about gifted kids who get overlooked by the system. The story is a bit undisciplined itself — it would be nice if they defined "gifted," for example, considering the percentage of these students who’ve dropped out or who have sub-par school skills, or show how they’re different from a typical teenager. It’s a puzzling story.
Patrick the Sales Guy said…
WOW that’s some bad reporting.
The Times usin’ temps?
This is our hot button issue. The gifted programs in the Seattle school system are constantly under attack. Also the amount of money that goes to the programs is absoltely pitiful. As parents of a kid in a gifted program the message we recieve always seems to be – hey your kid will be OK – he’s smart, he doesn’t need any help.
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 09:20 AM