[Aquinasfan]

The six-week Governor’s School is conducted every summer, with 400 students each at two locations: Salem College in Winston-Salem (West) and Meredith College in Raleigh (East).

The residential program draws public high school students who are approaching their senior years, and who are nominated by their high schools’ teachers and administrators. Students are identified as “intellectually gifted,”

What purpose can a six-week program for "intellectually gifted" students serve?

OTOH, what could possibly go wrong?

Testimony of parent whose son committed suicide after attending the Ark. Gov.'s School

[TaxRelief]

What purpose can a six-week program for "intellectually gifted" students serve?

The children and parents are lead to believe that attendance is a guarantee of college acceptance at UNC Chapel Hill.

[wintertime]

Testimony of parent whose son committed suicide after attending the Ark. Gov.'s School

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This mother's testimony is very sad.

[GadareneDemoniac]

I attended one of these in Georgia in the 1960's. It was indeed patterned after the NC program, and most of the staff and faculty were of the "JFK" mold of liberals that one could encounter before the Viet Nam / LBJ debacle.

We read good books, talked about "big ideas", and watched foreign films - with subtitles!! One of the English teachers from New Jersey was more knowledgeable than any of my "Kudzu League" profs that I encountered later at college. Heavy stuff for a kid from the middle of nowhere. It was at that program that I discovered the charms of smart girls and late-night cigars. No, not like Billy Clinton (I know what you're thinking).

Fortunately for me, I was raised by two parents who encouraged intelligent thought and open discussion - and who expected you to back up your statements with facts, not feeeelings. I'm sure that a lot of my fellow attendees are the sort of baby boomers who set my teeth on edge now when I meet them.

The type of liberal arts people from those days, even though a few were openly disdainful of middle-class values, would have no place among the wild-eyed left wing nuts that came on the scene after the summer of "peace and love". So, I would not encourage my grandchildren to attend any of these programs. Sad, really.