GEPpers; DOM

Slow day today, with many leaving home for the Thanksgiving break. Two pieces of news:

1. The gifted education program (or GEP, for short) is featured on Today, if you haven't been following the news back home. Details/personal viewpoints here and here. I have nothing substantial to add (to the debate), except that those GEPpers I encountered in school were very much like the rest of us "normal beings". That being said, I wonder the rationale of them being allocated more of the state's limited resources over the "mainstream" folks. The GEP with its smaller class sizes and specially assigned teachers.

It is terrible that folks would hunt down one of the letter writer's blogs and flame her on her tag board.


Part of John Singleton Copley's oil on canvas Watson and the Shark, 1777-78.

Edit: These are worth reading too.

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2. Brings us back to the term "Dirty Old Man". From Sammyboymod, and he has been arrested.