It sho 'nuff been a while since i done did devote some time to my journalistic endeavor. Things have been a bit hectic. Last weekend was a blur 'cause I was hardly home. This weekend will be no different. The pix are from a show last weekend with Jim Wurster at the school he works for/at. As you can see, the beard is coming along scraggly. I love it. Johanna was tested for Gifted and it's been determined that she is. This worries me. I'm extremely proud and pleased with this news but (believe it or not...hell, I wouldn't) I tested positive for this Gifted stuff and i'm a little leery of it. I felt it helped isolate me from other normal kids and, probably at one time, gave me a false sense of importance or superiority. Don't get me wrong. I'm sure I learned some great things in Gifted class....just ask Pete. I just want her to be normal and not let it go to her head. She is truly an amazing kid and i'm really glad she inherited her Mother's brains. Maybe she'll want to take up an instrument some day other than the sitar. Now, on the way to school, we play an Anoushka Shankar cd and she plays a recital for me on air sitar. Not too badly, either. Except she holds it like Bill Wyman held the bass. Tomorrow, i'm playing at the SouthShore Grill with Davee Bryan. I've never played with him before so it ought to be interesting. Then the next two nights i'm at Elwood's.
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Not sure if we learned anything in "Gifted" class except how to avoid unsolicited campus celebrity.
Putting the "educator" hat on now because I have to reiterate that things have changed since we were part of the horrendously failed pilot pull out gifted program.
Gifted centers have come a long way from what we experienced 30 some years ago. Children are in a class all day, every day, with other children who are excelling academically at the same rate. When these children are placed among others who are excelling at different speeds, these kids will find ways to entertain themselves and eventually get bored.
This is what happened to us (me, you, and Pete). And on top of it, we got the bonus of getting pulled out and left out part of a day. I never had an art or music class.
It's important to be careful and not automatically equate the present to the past. This can cause "when I was your age" disease...
Sorry if that sounded preachy. But I really hope you decide to observe a class sometime. You'd be impressed with the exposure she could have.
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