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Houston Schools Program For
Gifted One Os Best In Georgia
The Houston County public
school system program for
students with superior mental
capacities is regarded by
many educational authorities
as “(he best in the stale of
Georgia". Recently, a school
teacher from Atlanta’s Fulton
County visited the system, and
was so impressed that she
returned a few days later to
spend an entire wt*ek ob
serving so that she could at
tempt to implement the same
ideas in Fulton County's
public schools!
A Middle South Georgia
county located along I 75
thinks so much of the Houston
County Gifted Program that
they want to send their stu
dents to Perry and Warner
Robins to lake part in the
learning activities. Mrs.
Gervaise Perdue, co-ordinator
of Houston’s Gifted Program,
last week gave the Board of
Education an update on the
program
Among school systems
visiting Ihe county’s Gifted
Program were: Sandersville,
Fulton County, Macon County
(Montezuma); Pike County
(Zebulon); Upson County
(Thomaston); Clarke County
(Athens); Columbia County
(near Augusta); Lee County
(I.eesburg); Putnam County
(Eatonton); Crawford County
(Roberta); Cobb County
(Marietta); and Gwinnett
County (Lawrenceville).
School systems requesting
information included Rabun
County (Clayton); Valdosta
City; Pitnam, New Jersey;
Anne Arundel County,
Maryland; and Norton,
Virginia. The New Jersey
writer was with the state Co
ordinator of Gifted Children
lor New Jersey.
Other school systems who
have written for information
included: Whitfield County,
Georgia; Shalimar, Florida;
Annapolis, Maryland;
Chatham County (Savannah),
Georgia; Floyd County
(Rome), Georgia; McDuffie
County (Thomson), Georgia;
Evans, Georgia; and
Boieeville, New York.
For Ihe tall quarter of this
school year, there are a total
of tttt(> students in Houston
County enrolled in the Gifted
Program 01 this total, three
hundred and four are
Elementary, three hundred
and seventy six Junior High,
and two hundred and six are
Senior High students.
In the Perry area, Ihe
(allowing schools are teaching
Ihe following number of gifted
students: Perry Annex, 21;
Perry Junior High, 52; New
Hope, 4, Kings Chapel. 9;
Perry Elementary, 17;
Tucker, 17; Soulhside. t>; and
at Perry High School, 57
Gifted Sludents.
At Ihe Perry Annex Edwin
Smith is teaching the gifted
students, and at Perry Junior
High the teachers are Don
Forchelle and Beverly Wade
At Perry High School, three
teachers are employed with
Ihe Gifted Eddie Griffin.
Barbara Hopper, and Norma
Phillips These six teachers
cover grades seven through
twelve in the Perry area
Teaching the elementary
school students in the Gifted
Program in the Perry area is
Mrs Vivian Warlick. She also
leaches the Bonaire
Elementary School Gifted
Program students, Mrs
Warlick teaches at Tucker and
Kings Chapel Monday mor
nings. at Perry Elementary
Monday afternoons, at
Bonaire Tuesday mornings, at
Perry Elementary and
Southside on Tuesday af
ternoons. at Perry Elemen
tary and Tucker on Wed
nesday mornings, at Kings
Cahpel on Wednesday af
ternoons, at New Hope, Kings
Chapel, and Bonaire on
Thursday mornings, and at
Bonaire on Thursday af
ternoons
SUMMER
ENHANCEMENT
The county school system
held a Summer Enhancement
program last summer for
fourth, fifth, and sixth
graders One hundred and five
students enrolled in the three
week long program Mrs,
Perdue told the Board
members last week. “This
was the best experience I’ve
had in my twenty-four years in
the Houston County school
system.”
The 105 students were
charged $45 each for the three
week program Mrs. Perdue
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contrasted this amount with a
similar program held by
Shorter College (of Rome,
Georgia) which cost students
$185.00 each for a four week
program.
Subjects studied by the
students were many and
varied. They included:
sculpture; typing; crafts;
algebra-geometry (where the
4th, 3th and 6th graders
learned use of variables,
linear equations, and sets);
music, including composition
o( melodies; creative writing:
sewing; vocabulary drills in
both Spanish and French;
microscopic life; gymnastics;
photography; chorus; great
books; energy in our en
vironment; and others.
There were six to twelve
students in each class. Each
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student selected two of the
classes to conduct advanced
studies. A Parent Night
program at Shirley Hills
Elementary in Warner Robins
gave the students a chance to
demonstrate their acquired
skills.
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