Funding cuts may leave gifted kids behind

By Cheri Carlson/Ventura County Star

Tyler Tsuji and Lauren Zibell want extra schoolwork. The fifth-graders at Camarillo Heights School have been identified as gifted and talented students and don’t want a bunch of easy questions. They want something that really makes them think. “It gives us more chance to study what we like,” Tyler said of the Gifted and Talented Education programs at his school. GATE programs also can keep students from getting bored and backsliding academically, experts say. But as California’s public school funding plummets, many advocates worry that gifted kids will be the children left behind. “The gifted program is the first to be eliminated or cut,” said Margaret Gosfield, a retired Ventura teacher and former GATE coordinator. “It’s seen as an extra, instead of a necessity.” (more...)

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