[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a way he is right: it is simply electrons on a chatode ray tude. But
> there is always going to be a competition for school resources. Advocates for
> gifted and talented kids always have disproportionate financial and political
> resources. The challenge to school people, like Catherine, is to balance
> it...to make sure parents of G& T students are (with justification) happy
> with their children�s experience while protecting kids who have little
> advocacy going for them.
It is not necessarily "...always going to be a competition for school resources."
It may just be a problem inherent to the 'grade' structure of the current
school establishment. If you change the structure you may be able to
accommodate both groups for the same or fewer monetary resources. I believe
that what is lacking is innovative management.
Mike Atherton
Prospect Park
Ward 2
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~athe0007
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