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I would like to talk with you about time was attacked in a tree with you
about the kissed different aspect of identification Afghan
gifted children I personally have had two very bright children
and my daughter was not labeled as gifted my son YS
arm only because he was retested by a teacher who recognize
that he was different and
from when I like to talk with you about is
are what I've noticed with my son by having been
separated I mean when my daughter was Shanxi everybody in the class
she was really break their lease she's really pray my son was separated into
the gifted program
in the sixth grade and factitious self-image in such a way that he felt
are but she was different from the other kids and
such and not and not in a good way and
arm she became very armed obsessed with at first
and justice and large and
and that sort of thing and even though he's a man of mine she was trading
poetry and love poetry at that age
I'm just wondering how you feel about Howell
have maybelline children like this affects their entire view it for
or I can relate to his experience I think because Terry and I were
hold on to that class you know we were the
a.m. I remember Dennis
I i'm so want to say his last name but I'm not gonna do it on the air the the
school bully was a kid named Dennis
and I had to walk by his house to get home and he is to beat the crap outta me
every chance he got
and I did not participate in sports
with the other kids might you're fortunate my teachers would let mean
just avoid the sports because I was always the last one picked for all the
teams
I would say there's this giant oak tree up behind our elementary school and I
would sit there and read during
recess and um I did feel like a kid apart and I got into poetry when I was a
teenager and all that kind of stuff and
in a Bob Dylan was my hero and Dylan Thomas and he coming so I can still
recite a lotta stuff from memory um
I even you know back to women and at the time
there were people including my mother who are very concerned that I was
becoming an introverted I was becoming a
and outcast and you know is this gonna is this gonna turn out badly
um I in retrospect I mean I've had been I'm
you know a a lotta years to look back on it now
arm I think that those things certainly they shaped me and they help make who I
am
and I don't think they did so in a bad way I think that
we all have our challenges in life I'm sure the Dennis the boy had his
challenges in life in fact I know that his father used to beat him
with a belt badly and that probably we had a lot to do with why he
try to beat me I and and
um that those that separation or that definition or that you're special or
you're not or you're
you know teachers pat or whatever I am far less concerned about that then
whether the kids are simply allowed to live up to their potential I think that
eventually
as we grow up we sort out the social stuff and I've never been a social
animal I'm an introvert who has learned how to pretend he's an extrovert
I do it on the radio and television but you put me in a room with fifteen or
twenty people and I'm scared to death
are my if I'm standing up on stage I'm okay but if I have to be at a cocktail
party
you know do them for our radio stations and things I'm terrified
I'm not I just on that not good in social situations
and and so you know but I hate at a certain level you say hey okay that's
who I am
and this is why I you know I mention Goddard I was near Monday because
Goddard College give me an honorary PhD in a humane Arts and Letters
and I had to fly out to get up and they teach like this you know they they teach
to the student every student is individually taught
and I think that that's so cool and so important Denmark
in the Denmark has the best educational system in the world by any measurement
literally any measurement in Denmark it's hard to become a teacher than it is
to become a doctor
and they pay the teachers the same as they pay their MD's
we should be doing this stuff in the United States as my thoughts on that was
at arm and thanks for thanks to raise the issues are