Dumbing Down America

On Thursday night, I attended a talk called "Dumbing Down America." The author of the book by the same title gave the talk. It is a topic that speaks to my heart. The following description of giftedness really hit home. 

Basically, there are many systemic things working against gifted education (which makes me extremely sad and frustrated), but I was motivated to reach out to our principal after this chat to figure out what the parent community at our school can do. There are power in numbers and I hope I can at least start to make a difference at the local level for our son and others like him.