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Introduction

The purpose of this wikispace is to heighten awareness of the educational programs used to instruct our top students in secondary schools all over the nation. Formerly known as "gifted" students, these intellectually enhanced students are no longer being educated by middle and high school teachers in many cases. Instead, they are seeking programs that allow them to be dually enrolled in college programs or they are asked to take advanced placement courses that are often taught in a distance learning setting. As many of these students excell in their ninth grade year, they quickly find out that the curriculum as upper classmen offer no challenging course work that will help to prepare them for higher education or personal employment upon graduation.

It is for the reasons listed above so many of our students reaching their senior year of high school have completed two or three years of their collegeiate course work as well. This may sound like a good thing for most. However, sadly many students who are enrolled in dual enrollment programs do not have the slightest idea what career they would like pursue upon completion of college, and many of these students are too young to possess the level of maturity it takes to succeed in the professional world. Asking students between the ages of 14 and 18 to make educational decisions that will affect what industry they will work in is unfair to these young people. That is why a proposal has been created to identify a new way of educating the "gifted" students other than learning on their own with the assistance of a computer, or enrolling in a two or four year post-secondary school as a young teenager who is often unable to drive.

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