Monday, May 16, 2011

Talented and gifted school



Go to a school with talent and has been a privilege, but has also involved quite a few more responsibilities than other kids had. When I was little, more talented and equipped schools cost an arm and a leg. My parents didn't have a lot of money, so we were lucky that we were able to find a school equipped with paper in the area. It was actually not much in our immediate area. It was a good half hour drive each way to school – is not a problem for me, but rather a discomfort for my parents who worked 50 hours a week or more. Nonetheless, they wanted the best for me, so they made a commitment to drive me there. There was no bus that went there, so they had to carpool every morning. This meant that he would arrive an hour before school and stay an hour late.




Of course, like any good talented and gifted school, the Academy, I went to give out a lot of homework, so I made use of that extra time in the school. Meant that by the time I got home at night, I had a good start on my homework and that, if you didn't get everything done before going to sleep, I still had an hour to do so in the morning. At first it seemed like a drawback to arrive at school early and leave late, but soon I saw it was a blessing.




And classes in that school gifted talented and were out of this world. I was able to move so ahead in math class taking courses that have not been able to for a couple of years in public school. And modules have been even better. I got to study computer programming, knowing a bit of soldering and also some construction and study skills-based tracking and survival in an enrichment program. Perhaps the best part of it, however, was that the talent and other resources.




The school had one of the best libraries that I had ever seen and one of the most useful librarians I've ever encountered. He would help to find resources on almost every topic you can imagine, and he was always there to listen to all your questions and give you useful answers. The instructors were also pretty great too – at least some of them. There were teachers at the school of talented and gifted, what was your friends as your instructors, giving you helpful hints and academic counseling. Some of them had engaged in other fascinating project before becoming teachers, so you might get help with out of school projects as well. I had teachers, for example, with backgrounds in engineering. I came in handy when I wanted to design and build my robot!


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