Long ago and far away in BGE time (Before Gifted Education), our sons, now well into adulthood, attended a consolidated rural school in Iowa. Here, in BGE time, families and teachers and principals were a community thoroughly dedicated to educating for productive and satisfying lives, and families held the Lake Wobegon belief that “their children were all above average.”
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