Maria Kennedy
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439 appearances
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Maria Kennedy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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For want of a better word, to be little androids though, or little robots that sit in a classroom and don't cause a problem.
And so anybody that is a divergent thinker, anybody who does not conform is then looked upon as a problem.
And the work done is to make them conform.
So it's not to explore any strengths.
It's not to teach them how to, you know, to be creative.
Creative and how to perform outside of the box, whatever what that box is.
It's more to control.
Um, you know, so how how do we make everybody just the same?
And um for those of us who have traveled and have been fortunate enough to be in the States and in places where people do think differently, we recognize that that there is
Far more needed.
So when I was in the Caribbean again, it was definitely the deficit model.
And part of the problem I felt, particularly in the Caribbean, was that there is a stigma about your child being identified as being different.
And so, yes, if your child can get into a gifted program, so if they can get the gifted label, then that's where
Wonderful and everybody celebrates that.
Unfortunately, getting the gifted label in the Caribbean is very, very difficult, particularly because there's this limited scope.
And so the definition of gifted in the Caribbean islands that I was working in, you had to be schoolhouse gifted in English mathematics and science.
So if you didn't test well in all three areas, you didn't get the gifted label.
So my son is a is a math genius almost.
I use genius loosely because you know.
But in my opinion, the boy's a math genius, right?
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