MERIT program survives as elective course
The highly contentious gifted program within the Lowndes County School District was saved Friday, thanks in part to the outcry from students’ parents.
A standing-room-only crowd packed into the Lowndes County School Board meeting Friday morning, anxiously waiting to hear the school board’s decision on whether or not to cut the gifted program, commonly referred to as MERIT, for seventh and eighth-graders within the district.
Gifted programs serve unique purposes, instructors say
The proposal to end gifted classes in the county’s seventh and eighth grades will go before the Lowndes County School Board Friday.
Parents of the affected students have promised to be at the meeting and voice their opinions on why the district should not only continue to offer the gifted classes, commonly referred to as MERIT, but should offer them alongside pre-Advanced Placement classes.
Our view: MERIT program has, uh, merit…..
Few stories have produced the number of comments as did Tuesday’s report on a plan in the Lowndes County School District to suspend the MERIT program for its seventh and eighth-grade students.
Parents outraged by loss of gifted program
Although officials say it has been a move three years in the making, parents and students responded with shock and anger over the Lowndes County School District’s decision to drop its gifted program, commonly known as MERIT, for the county’s seventh- and eighth-graders.
Budget crunch raises concerns for Starkville schools’ gifted program
Budget cuts are making many people in the Starkville School District ask questions about the future of gifted programs in the public schools, and there’s not a lot of answers available.