Do you think the government should have a school specifically with above average students?

Do you think a lot of smart kids are getting caught/lost in the system?

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i know of a private school on blue hill road that serves as a brain trust so to speak, of very bright students!

I dont know what we should make of this...

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i know of a private school on blue hill road that serves as a brain trust so to speak, of very bright students!
I dont know what we should make of this...

hmm, what school is this? Gifted kids, I suggest that they apply to St. Andrews for a scholarship or try their hardest to get in. I had the opportunity, wasted it, and regret it to this day.

Instead of the govt making a school for this, just put it in the ciriculum for the above average ones. I think AP, IB, or A-Level type of work in each government school should work.

Also, its good to find out that in C.R. Walker they now have web-publishing added to the computer ciriculum.

when i attended saint augustine's, they did group us in room sets by how smart we were or how well we performed academically, so that homeroom by homeroom was extremely competitive from within.

what's even better is the fact that all of us in group 8 remain close friends to this day:hammer:

I think it is a great idea! When I was in school in England, the smart kids got special classes, away me and the rest of the dumb-bells! :) As far as I have been able to keep in contact with them, most of the smart kids went on to greater and greater things!

There are kids that are smarter that the rest of us - smarter for many reasons. When they are thrown into the "general population" they tend to "dumb-down" in order to fit in. When I was teaching in the US I saw that happen - to often.

There are kids that are smarter that the rest of us - smarter for many reasons. When they are thrown into the "general population" they tend to "dumb-down" in order to fit in. When I was teaching in the US I saw that happen - to often.


I saw it happen alot too. Sad!

hmm, what school is this? Gifted kids, I suggest that they apply to St. Andrews for a scholarship or try their hardest to get in. I had the opportunity, wasted it, and regret it to this day.

Instead of the govt making a school for this, just put it in the ciriculum for the above average ones. I think AP, IB, or A-Level type of work in each government school should work.

Also, its good to find out that in C.R. Walker they now have web-publishing added to the computer ciriculum.

your working with something here.

But at the risk of dumbing down...
kids need to grow up in a healthy enviornment!!

And besides..when you try to set bright kids aside, you tend to get things like the iluminatti and skull and bones.
At least those groups are built around money elites...but now you will have a group of money and intellectual elites?
The only thing with that will be that the money eilites will have a chance to smarten up!!

Dangerous idea socially!
Having Brains does not mean having feeling!
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When I was in school, the smarter kids was seperated from the others for the most parts (in different homerooms). I do believe that seperation is a good idea because peer pressure takes its toll on most people while in school. I seen it happen way too often growing up. Thank God I did what I had to do and stuck with it, not like some of the others that I know that fell by the way side due to peer pressure....some smart ppl too.

when i attended saint augustine's, they did group us in room sets by how smart we were or how well we performed academically, so that homeroom by homeroom was extremely competitive from within.
what's even better is the fact that all of us in group 8 remain close friends to this day:hammer:

What year did you graduated from SAC...
Personally I detested SAC's grouping system.
Imagine being brilliant in Math, (which was what they grouped you by) and average in everything else. You find out that you are always left behind, and had teachers who never made time to explain things clearly as everyone else understood.

Then imagine if you were horrible at Math, and brilliant in English, you would never have the opportunity to take the extended in Math, English or Literature. Who was this system benefitting?

When I was in school, the smarter kids was seperated from the others for the most parts (in different homerooms). I do believe that seperation is a good idea because peer pressure takes its toll on most people while in school. I seen it happen way too often growing up. Thank God I did what I had to do and stuck with it, not like some of the others that I know that fell by the way side due to peer pressure....some smart ppl too.

I remember we had this system in primary school: the smart kids remained smart and the dumb kids...well...they ended up at BTVI!

dumb kids...well...they ended up at BTVI!

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We were split into sets at high school but the homerooms were mixed. Just about all of us in set1 did well and so did the others. As we in the first set did one part of the cirriculum, I found the other set was doing the same thing actually. ometimes we were ahaed of them and they ahead of us! Some were able to actually be moved up to the 1st set. Perhaps some children need to understand that some people progress at different paces, some can pick up quickly, some need to ask many questions. Some children tend to take it as them being dumber than the others, that they can never get the kind of grades the others get, and unfortunately, they are not directed otherwise. Sometimes its because they are expected not to be that great anyway and sometimes that goes on from grade7-12 and the student wastes their whole opportunity for education.

They should put in things like AP in EVERY school. I've seen Freeport High done it and I wish I was there because I litterally wasted a senior year after passing BGCSEs doing one project when I could have been doing something more meaningfull (to me).

different when i was in school in the UK, basically they seperated only the actual subject classes, so they had intermediate English classes, Maths, etc, and you went in which one suited your level the best, all other classes were mixed. In boarding school we had "houses" and "years" and we were all treated the same. Come Exam time (GCE/CSE) you only took what you could. If you passed you passed, either way everyone finished school the same, with a final School Service at the end of the year. No demeaning graduation thing like they have in the US and here. I just happened to have the choice to go ahead a year or behind due to the timing of when i left Freeport High and went the the UK, i ofcourse chose a year ahead .. i finished school at 15, while all my peers were 16, and yes I passed most of the exams with good grades, which actually were regraded here in Nassau so I could enter COB, they were "upped" from grades like B to A or C to B+, also helped me get in College in the US, however brief that was! That was 15-20 years ago now, so things have definately changed, youths "should" be a heck of alot smarter now adays with all the new Computer Technology and Information available.

Umm, this is what private schools are for?

But if you mean under a government system if they can't pay for it then,.... I think it would be a good idea.

I guess then the above average would start at 3.00 and above?