Gifted Education Policy Changes I’d Like to See — Part 3 of 3

My ultimate goal is to contribute to educational policy changes and to develop approaches, funding, training, and flexible systems for the ways we “do” education, both public and private.

Families with gifted children in different Levels of Gifted need options and alternatives when their schools are not set up for meeting their needs effectively and for providing a good fit. They should be allowed to go where they can find those options. However, it does not have to be either/or. Once the public schools change the ways they deliver an education, families who thought they had to go to private schools to make things work will be happily going back to the public schools. I don’t think schools should be funded by taxes on local home owners and businesses.

I am a proponent of both school choice and competition in the marketplace. Educational systems work for the taxpayers. The taxpayers are their customers. Again, the taxes should come from a national federal system and not the local home owners. Parents and their children should have a legal right to choose the school that will deliver what they need. This is not the same as parents dictating what the school should do. That makes little sense, because not every family’s needs are the same, and the educators in the nearby — or district assigned — school may already be…