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- From: blumb@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Bill Blum)
- Subject: Re: Justification
- Message-ID: <BzwqHE.HGB@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Summary: Magnet Schools (was RE: Justification)
- Keywords: gifted talented
- Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
- Organization: Techno-Zealots for a Better Future
- References: <Bzvn8D.JB4.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 07:36:49 GMT
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- In article <Bzvn8D.JB4.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
- >
- >Has anyone had personal experience with magnet schools? I'm curious about
- >whether they provide any benefit.
- >
- Well, I did not attend a magnet school, but I was part of a gifted/talented
- program in grades K-8.
-
- My only complaint was: Some programs (such as the one I was subjected to)
- do not take into account that not all students will be interested in the
- same things.
-
- We were taught Spanish, we produced plays, we saw nature films.
- A friend of mine and I grew immensely bored with the material presented and
- spent our time in the library, reading books like Issac Asimov, etc. I was
- never given a reason to WANT to learn Spanish, or to learn about nature, or
- to care about drama.
-
- I'm sure that magnet schools would fare better in this regard---they are
- aimed towards what some students WANT.
-
- --
- Bill Blum * "God willing...we shall return."
- Purdue University * Gene Cernan, The Moon, Dec 1972(BSEE P.U. 56)
- School of Nuclear Engineering * Member of the SEDS National Board
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