Gifted education, Chesapeake-style
In Chesapeake, once you were identified as a gifted fifth or sixth-grader, you were carted off to Indian River Middle School Annex once a week for GATE (Gifted and Talented Education). This is where you got to do things like design rollercoasters using ACAD...
(not a rollercoaster)...watch decade-old episodes of the Voyage of the Mimi starring a young Ben Affleck...
...learning about orienteering in the common area where the portables were...
(this photograph is factually accurate because about half of us were Asian)...learn to count in Mayan...
...copy Alley Cat from your teacher's 5.25" floppy onto your hard disk...
...take field trips to the NATO headquarters...
...and make an Egyptian (death) mask out of papier mache.
(I didn't think this was morbid at the time)Then at the end of the day, you all trooped back on the bus and went back to your home school to do times tables with the regular kids.
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I hate to be the one to do this, but as a GATE student myself, it is incumbent upon me to point out that you left out two of the coolest activities... drawing chalk lines around "murder" victims in the hallways and watching OJ's trial on TV.
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