For those who doubt the innovative potential of America 's youth, look no farther than your own gifted child when it is time to do homework. From the dog ate it to we don 't have any this year, your little Mozart has probably produced his or her own lines of genius. Rest assured that America 's lineage of scientists, inventors, and artists will continue.
Homework is not the reason. In harnessing this creativity, in fact, it is malnutrition. Thankfully, bright minds happen to be a resilient lot. But while the blooming gifted can take a lot of abuse, it would be inexcusable to stand idly by if the public school system were to spew shovels of shit day-in-and-day-out toward our young best-and-brightest. Yet this is precisely what happens in the United States, which among peer nations is particularly guilty of malpractice. It is we who invest among the very least in this source of our future gadgetry, high culture, and economic growth.
In part, this is due to the perception that …show more content…
Pulling out their chair or throwing a pie in their face solely because they seem to have it easy is cruel. And sadly, though any gifted child is thought much the same, the smart kid is actually a thing of fiction, a Disney Channel caricature, for no one coasts through life no matter what the camera angle suggests. More, those with truly unblemished records are not typical, particularly when they are not privileged with elite parents. Gifted children, tragically, have a quite high rate of dropping out of high school. Whereas 2% are gifted in the general population, according to a meta-analysis (2003) from Dr. Esra Kaskaloglu, 4.5% are gifted in the population of high school dropouts. Thus, one is twice as likely to find a gifted person by sifting through those without a high school diploma than by sifting through those from a random population, even tossing in college graduates and PhD 's. Perhaps that attests to the tortured souls of many of these
Homework is not the reason. In harnessing this creativity, in fact, it is malnutrition. Thankfully, bright minds happen to be a resilient lot. But while the blooming gifted can take a lot of abuse, it would be inexcusable to stand idly by if the public school system were to spew shovels of shit day-in-and-day-out toward our young best-and-brightest. Yet this is precisely what happens in the United States, which among peer nations is particularly guilty of malpractice. It is we who invest among the very least in this source of our future gadgetry, high culture, and economic growth.
In part, this is due to the perception that …show more content…
Pulling out their chair or throwing a pie in their face solely because they seem to have it easy is cruel. And sadly, though any gifted child is thought much the same, the smart kid is actually a thing of fiction, a Disney Channel caricature, for no one coasts through life no matter what the camera angle suggests. More, those with truly unblemished records are not typical, particularly when they are not privileged with elite parents. Gifted children, tragically, have a quite high rate of dropping out of high school. Whereas 2% are gifted in the general population, according to a meta-analysis (2003) from Dr. Esra Kaskaloglu, 4.5% are gifted in the population of high school dropouts. Thus, one is twice as likely to find a gifted person by sifting through those without a high school diploma than by sifting through those from a random population, even tossing in college graduates and PhD 's. Perhaps that attests to the tortured souls of many of these