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Oakville Be By ANGELA BLACKBURN Bright students cou the shuffle when Grade Group says destreaming could hurt bright students Board of wamed. The Association of Bright Children (ABC) through the board‘s Special Education Advisory Committee (SEAC), wants the board to implement a regionâ€"wide, no cost program in Grade 9 that would continue the enriched proâ€" graming gifted children currently receive at the elementary school level. At the last board meeting, public school trustees heard from the group about the danger of not challenging gifted students. "The achievement level of such students falls dramatically when they are required to do routine work at a routine pace," quoted ABC member Rod Taylor from a U.S. study published last year. "Experience is that gifted stuâ€" dents subjected to programs lacking intellectual challenge and necessary support exhibit a variety of undesirâ€" The board‘s SEAC commiuttee said that while the board‘s preferred means of addressing gifted students‘ needs in high school years (the proâ€" vision of advanced level programs) is now being prohibited by the minâ€" istry for Grade 9, the board‘s obligaâ€" tion to gifted students remains intact. support able res ABC recommended a board offiâ€" cial coâ€"ordinate development and implementation of Grade 9 proâ€" grams to address gifted students‘ needs across the region. abie responses, ranging trom Chro ic underachievement to disrupti behavior and to dropping out Tavlor told trustees. The Ministry of Education has directed ‘school boards to "destream" Grade 9 â€" getting rid of general/advanced level courses that have characterized high school eduâ€" cation in Grade 9 â€" by September, 1993. Taylor told trustees, individual schools lack directional consistency. "It appears they could be inventing 22 different wheels," he said. "The decentralized approach to planning has not worked to well serve gifted students in the past." The group also sought accountâ€" ability for the program beyond the school level. ABC also recommended the desâ€" ignated board official chair a small committee to include ABC represenâ€" tation, to look at program options for gifted students at the Grade 9 level. Those options could includ acceleration â€" and with the introduc Meet Grit candidates tonight at library The Oakvilleâ€"Milton Federa Liberal Riding Association i gearing up for the next federa election with a meetâ€"theâ€"candi dates night on Wednesday, Feb 10th. Candidates‘ Night â€" to be held from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Oakville Library Auditorium â€" will give the four candidates seekâ€" ing the Liberal Party nomination an opportunity to meet party members and members of the public. estreame _ The four candidates are Mohan Anand, David Bazar, Bonnie Brown and Bruce Hood. February‘s meeting will be the first time that all four candidates have appeared in public together. The Candidates‘ Night is a leadâ€"up to the riding association‘s nomination meeting, when party members will choose a candidate to represent the Oakvilleâ€"Milton riding. The chosen candidate will face incumbent Oakvilleâ€"Miltion MP Otto Jelinek, the federal Revenue Minister, in the next federal elecâ€" tion. aver lents could get lost in en Grade 9 classes are iext fall, the Halton ducation has been Staff d necessary ~of undesirâ€" from chronâ€" ) disruptive evaluation of students a benchmarks, allowing entry into Grade 10. Another option is the of existing Grade 5 to 8 for gifted students, into Gt of existing Grade 5 to & programs for gifted students, into Grade 9. Currently students up to Grade 4, identified as gifted (ministry defined as those with "an unusually advanced degree of general intellecâ€" tual ability that requires differentiatâ€" ed learning experiences...beyond those normally prc 1O p MEBAg QPCl Bob Kerr, owner of Kerr Cadillac Pontiac Buick Limited on the South SeTVICE KO0@0, wWanted CY one to know about the birth of a grandson and anyone driving on the QEW can‘t miss the news The bov is the son of Kerr‘s daughter Brenda and her husband Jamie Hibbard. 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